Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
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title:
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
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Founded in 1925, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Maids was the first labor organization led by African Americans to receive a charter in the American Federation of Labor (AFL). The BSCP gathered a membership of 18,000 passenger railway workers across Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Beginning after the American Civil War, the job of Pullman porter had become an important means of work by African-Americans. The leaders of the BSCP—including A. Philip Randolph, its founder and fi
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American labor organisation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherhood_of_Sleeping_Car_Porters
date created:
2004-03-10T16:58:29Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T01:20:49Z
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