Pullman porters and the rise of protest politics in Black America, 1925-1945:
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Main Author: Bates, Beth Tompkins (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, N.C. University of North Carolina Press c2001
Series:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-263) and index
No More Servants in the House: Pullman Porters Strive for Full-Fledged Citizenship -- The Politics of Paternalism and Patronage in Black Chicago -- Biting the Hand That Feeds Us: The BSCP Battles Pullman Paternalism, 1925-1927 -- Launching a Social Movement, 1928-1930 -- Forging Alliances: New-Crowd Protest Networks, 1930-1935 -- New-Crowd Networks and the Course of Protest Politics, 1935-1940 -- We Are Americans, Too: The March on Washington Movement, 1941-1943 -- Protest Politics Comes of Age
Focusing on the struggle of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), to form a union in Chicago (HQ of the Pullman Company), this work charts the quest of African Americans for civil rights in the inter-war period. New ground was broken by backing up demands with collective action
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 275 p.)
ISBN:0807875368
9780807875360

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