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Subject(s)

• Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Ladies Auxiliary—History [Browse]
• African American labor union members—History [Browse]
• Women labor union members—United States—History [Browse]
• Discrimination in employment—United States—History [Browse]
• Race discrimination—United States—History [Browse]
• Pullman porters—History [Browse]

Series

• Women in American history [More in this series]
• The working class in American history

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-258) and index.

Contents

• Introduction : the brotherhood story
• The case against Pullman
• It was the women who made the union : organizing the brotherhood
• Striking for the new manhood movement
• The first ladies' auxiliary to the first Negro trade union in the world
• A bigger and better ladies' auxiliary
• The duty of fair representation : brotherhood sisters and brothers
• Union wives, union homes
• We talked of democracy and learned it can be made to work : politics
• Disharmony in the official family : dissolution of the International Ladies' Auxiliary, 1956-57
• Appendix : BSCP Ladies' Auxiliary membership, 1940-56.

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ISBN

• 0252023404 (acid-free paper)
• 0252066367 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

97004579

OCLC

36252874

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