Tearing down the color bar : a documentary history and analysis of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Author(s)

• Wilson, Joseph F.

Bibliographic Information

Tearing down the color bar : a documentary history and analysis of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

[edited by] Joseph F. Wilson

Columbia University Press, c1989

Note

Bibliography: p. [377]-379

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Traces the history of the most influential Black American union, discusses its link with the Civil Rights movement, and looks at the reasons for its success.

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Details

• NCID: BA07572822
• ISBN:
  • 0231064780
• LCCN: 88039461
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: x, 396 p., [16] p. of plates
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HD6515.R362
  • DC19 : 331.88/1138522/0973
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters -- History -- Sources
  • LCSH : Trade-unions -- United States -- Afro-American membership -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
  • LCSH : Discrimination in employment -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources