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Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (Women in American History) Hardcover – January 1, 1998

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The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was the first national trade union for African Americans. Standard BSCP histories focus on the men who built the union: few acknowledge the important role of the Ladies' Auxiliary 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. In this first book-length history of the women of the BSCP, Melinda Chateauvert brings to life an entire group of women ignored in previous histories of the Brotherhood and of working-class women, situating them in the debates among women's historians over the ways that race and class shape women's roles and gender relations. Chateauvert's work shows how the auxiliary, made up of the wives, daughters, and sisters of Pullman porters, used the Brotherhood to claim respectability and citizenship. Pullman maids, relegated to the auxiliary, found their problems as working women neglected in favor of the rhetoric of racial solidarity. 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.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Illinois Press (January 1, 1998)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 267 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0252023404
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0252023408
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.45 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches

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Melinda Chateauvert, Ph.D., is a writer, historian, and activist with three decades of experience in movements for gender equality, sexual freedom, and civil rights advocacy. Working with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Dr. Chateauvert has served as an expert witness in class action litigation challenging race discrimination in higher education and public contracting, as well as documenting racial bias in death penalty cases. Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood (University of Illinois Press, 1997) documents the work of African American women in organizing the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first international black trade union in the AFL-CIO; it remains the standard for labor historians. Her recent book, Sex Workers Unite: A history of the movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk (Beacon Press, Jan. 2014) traces the vital activism of sex workers at the fringes of gay liberation, AIDS activism, labor organizing and the long struggle against police violence and criminalization.

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Fred Shoppin

The type of history book we need more of

Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2018

This book covers an important aspect of the early civil rights movement in America. I think I bought it before I had an Amazon account. I came at it as a former railroad regulator and a general railfan interested in the history of passenger trains. Despite its technical subject matter, I found it engaging. What I mean by the title here -- historians who cover some of the less glamorous or less well known sides of our nation's history should be applauded. They do it out of a love of history, not to make money.