Marching Together
eBook - ePub

Marching Together

Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Marching Together

Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

About this book

The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) was the first national trade union for African Americans. Standard BSCP histories focus on the men who built the union. Yet the union's Ladies' Auxiliary played an essential role 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. 

Melinda Chateauvert explores the history of the Ladies' Auxiliary and the wives, daughters, and sisters of Pullman porters who made up its membership and used the union to claim respectability and citizenship. As she shows, 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. Chateauvert also sheds light on the plight of Pullman maids, who—relegated to the Auxiliary—found their problems as working women neglected in favor of the rhetoric of racial solidarity.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction: The Brotherhood Story
  7. 1 The Case against Pullman
  8. 2 “It Was the Women Who Made the Union”: Organizing the Brotherhood
  9. 3 Striking for the New Manhood Movement
  10. 4 The First Ladies’ Auxiliary to the First International Negro Trade Union in the World
  11. 5 “A Bigger and Better Ladies’ Auxiliary”
  12. 6 “The Duty of Fair Representation”: Brotherhood Sisters and Brothers
  13. 7 Union Wives, Union Homes
  14. 8 “We Talked of Democracy and Learned It Can Be Made to Work”: Politics
  15. 9 “Disharmony within the Official Family”: Dissolution of the International Ladies’ Auxiliary, 1956–57
  16. Appendix: BSCP Ladies’ Auxiliary Membership, 1940–56
  17. Notes
  18. Index