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9780252066368 Academic Inspection Copy

Marching Together

Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
  • ISBN-13: 9780252066368
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Melinda Chateauvert
  • Price: AUD $58.99
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  • Local release date: 16/03/1997
  • Format: Paperback 304 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]
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The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was the first national trade union for African Americans. Standard BSCP histories focus on the men who built the union; few acknowledge the important role of the Ladies' Auxiliary in shaping public debates over black manhood and unionization, setting political agendas for the black community, and crafting effective strategies to win racial and economic justice. The Ladies' Auxiliary, made up of the wives, daughters, and sisters of Pullman porters, used the Brotherhood to claim respectability and citizenship. Pullman maids, relegated to the auxiliary, found their problems as working women neglected in favor of the rhetoric of racial solidarity. The auxiliary actively educated other women and children about the labor movement, staged consumer protests, and organized local and national civil rights campaigns ranging from the 1941 March on Washington to school integration to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. A volume in the series Women in American History, edited by Anne Firor Scott, Nancy A. Hewitt, and Stephanie Shaw, and in the series The Working Class in American History, edited by David Brody, Alice Kessler-Harris, David Montgomery, and Sean Wilentz
''The strength of this book lies in Chateauvert's analysis of the political engagement of Pullman wives. Auxiliary did not mean inconsequential, she shows... Chateauvert's thoughtful analysis adds much to our understanding of labor, gender, and African-American history.'' -- Andrea Tone, Georgia Historical Quarterly
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