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Location	Call #	Volume	Status
Sherman Library	HD6515.R362 B763 1998		AVAILABLE

Author	Chateauvert, Melinda, 1958-
Title	Marching together : women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters / Melinda Chateauvert.
OCLC	36252874
ISBN	0252023404 (acid-free paper)
	0252066367 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Publisher	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1998]
	�1998
Description	xiv, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
LC Subject heading/s	Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Ladies Auxiliary -- History.
	African American labor union members -- United States -- History.
	Women labor union members -- United States -- History.
	Discrimination in employment -- United States -- History.
	Race discrimination -- United States -- History.
	Pullman porters -- History.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 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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