Found 3 collections related to Pullman%20Car%20Company

The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) organized railway porters (traditionally an occupation for African-Americans) to bargain with the Pullman Company which held a virtual monopoly on the nation's sleeping car facilities. The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters collection includes printed matter, correspondence, legal documents, addresses by A. Philip Randolph, and other material reflecting the activities of this union. less

Luther S. Thomas was an African American railroad porter employed by the Pullman Company in the 1940s and 1950s, and president of the Asheville North Carolina Division of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. The Luther S. Thomas papers cotains correspondence, including a few letters to staff of the Pullman Company, membership records, and printed matter documenting Luther S. Thomas's career as president of the Asheville, North Carolina Division of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters union. The collection also contains miscellaneous correspondence and documents relating to the Triennal Convention of the Brotherhood in 1953, including a handwritten report by Thomas to the Asheville division. The bulk of the collection pertains to labor grievances filed by Thomas and several Asheville porters, particularly on issues of discrimination and adequate health safeguards in the transportation of patients with communicable diseases. Also included are Division membership lists and printed material about tourist sites published by various railroad lines. less

Benjamin F. McLaurin (1906-1989) was a Black labor leader and civic worker who held leadership positions within the Brotherhood of the Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) during the 1920s and 1930s. He worked with A. Philip Randolph throughout the Civil Rights Movement, and later advocated for job equality and increased educational opportunities for minority communities while serving on New York City board committees. The collection, dated 1936 to 1989, showcases McLaurin's lifelong labor, civic, and political work through correspondence, project reports, meeting minutes, Senate committee statements and testimonies, convention and conference reports, and newspaper clippings. less