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    Founded in 1925, The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Maids, commonly referred to as the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), was the first...
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    Pullman porters were men hired to work for the railroads as porters on sleeping cars. Starting shortly after the American Civil War, George Pullman sought...
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    Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, founded and organized by A. Philip Randolph, was one of the most powerful African-American political entities of...
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    eventually unionized. Their union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (established, 1925), became an important source of strength for the burgeoning Civil...
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  • including the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen of America and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, that have merged with it since 1969. The union was founded...
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    C. L. Dellums (category Vice presidents of the AFL–CIO)
    American labor activist and one of the organizers and leaders of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Dellums worked as a porter for the Pullman Company from...
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  • known for helping to organize the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first African-American trade union. At the age of one hundred, Tucker narrated a...
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    The Society for the Prevention of Calling Sleeping Car Porters "George" (SPCSCPG) was founded as a joke by lumber baron George W. Dulany in 1914. Membership...
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  • based in Chicago. She served as president of the Ladies Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters from 1930 to 1956. Wilson was born in Denver...
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  • The Porter, about the railway sleeping car porters who created North America's first Black labour union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Bless...
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    Stanley G. Grizzle (category Members of the Order of Canada)
    stripped Black porters of their identity. In Grizzle's book My Name's Not George: The Story of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in Canada (1998)...
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  • George: The Story of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in Canada and Johnnie F. Kirvin's Hey Boy! Hey George: The Pullman Porter for insight into...
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  • Because of this, Black Canadian sleeping car porters organized the Canadian affiliate of the all-Black Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1917. While...
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    Frank L. Boyd (category Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters)
    1962) was an American labor organizer and local leader of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters from 1926 to 1951 in Minnesota. He was the first African...
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    Pullman National Historical Park (category Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Chicago)
    neighborhoods nearby. Unionization of African American workers began in 1925, when the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was founded by A. Philip Randolph...
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  • Nixon already led the Montgomery branch of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters union, known as the Pullman Porters Union, which he had helped organize...
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  • unionist, best remembered as the first vice president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and leader of its Chicago division. As the union's lead negotiator...
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  • 1925 creation of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters as the first Black-led labour union. Aml Ameen as Junior Massey, a porter with the transcontinental...
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    South End and Roxbury neighborhoods of Boston and helped found the Boston local of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. She was active in the fight to...
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  • over wages and working conditions. Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) – The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was organized in 1924 as an alternative...
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    actor. The American Federation of Labor chartered The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, which made it the first African-American led union to be so recognized...
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  • vain." The Women's Auxiliary was a group of mostly wives and relatives of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. They were active within the MOWM primarily...
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  • 10,000 Black Men Named George (category Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters)
    porters of the Pullman Company in 1920s America, known as the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. The effort was intertwined with the election of Franklin...
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  • General Workers' Union (Belize) (category Politics of British Honduras)
    secretary, has misused funds donated by the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, intended to support victims of Hurricane Janet. This led Pollard, in 1956...
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    Dellums Station after C. L. Dellums, co-founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Three tracks of the Union Pacific Railroad Niles Subdivision...
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    "attendant" being preferred. Pullman porter Society for the Prevention of Calling Sleeping Car Porters "George" Sleeping car Stewards referenced by the BBC...
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    A. Philip Randolph (category Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters people)
    civil rights activist. In 1925, he organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first successful African-American-led labor union. In...
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  • Montgomery bus boycott (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of March 2024)
    under the leadership of E. D. Nixon, president of the local NAACP chapter and a member of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Nixon intended that...
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  • parents are Claude Sr., who served as the Vice President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and Cora Black, who was a housewife. While attending...
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  • the A.F. of L. Convention upholds the right of jurisdiction of the Order of Sleeping Car Conductors over sleeping car porters, the Brotherhood will have...
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