Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Examples of Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in the following topics:

• Minorities and the New Deal

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  • Philip Randolph, one of the era's most prominent civil rights activist and the founding president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, a group of civil rights leaders that included Bayard Rustin, Walter White, and A.
  • He also cited reports of discrimination: "There is evidence available that needed workers have been barred from industries engaged in defense production solely because of considerations of race, creed, color or national origin, to the detriment of workers' morale and of national unity."
  • In January 1935, Donald Gaines Murray sought admission to the University of Maryland School of Law.
  • By the time the case reached court, Murray was represented by Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall of the Baltimore chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

• A New Direction for Unions

  • Lewis, the president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW).
  • The CIO transitioned into a rival federation of unions under the new name of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. 
  • The AFL's long history of the exclusion of immigrant workers, women workers, and workers of color gradually made the AFL out of touch with the realities of the American industrial labor.
  • Philip Randolph and his Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters gathering black workers constitute an exception in the AFL membership).
  • Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers of America and founder of the CIO, photographed at the Capitol in 1922.