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Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945 Beth Tompkins Bates

Pullman Porters and the Rise of  Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945 By Beth Tompkins Bates

Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945 by Beth Tompkins Bates


Summary

Focusing on the struggle of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), to form a union in Chicago (HQ of the Pullman Company), this work charts the quest of African Americans for civil rights in the inter-war period. New ground was broken by backing up demands with collective action.

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Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945 Summary

Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945 by Beth Tompkins Bates

Linking the labor movement to African Americans' campaign for racial equality Between World War I and World War II, African Americans' quest for civil rights took on a more aggressive character as a new group of black activists challenged the politics of civility traditionally embraced by old-guard leaders in favor of a more forceful protest strategy. Beth Tompkins Bates traces the rise of this new protest politics - which was grounded in making demands and backing them up with collective action - by focusing on the struggle of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) to form a union in Chicago, headquarters of the Pullman Company. Bates shows how the BSCP overcame initial opposition from most of Chicago's black leaders by linking its union message with the broader social movement for racial equality. As members of BSCP protest networks mobilized the black community around the quest for manhood rights and economic freedom, they broke down resistance to organized labor even as they expanded the boundaries of citizenship to include equal economic opportunity. By the mid-1930s, BSCP protest networks gained platforms at the national level, fusing Brotherhood activities first with those of the National Negro Congress and later with the March on Washington Movement. Lessons learned during this era guided the next generation of activists, who carried the black freedom struggle forward after World War II.

About Beth Tompkins Bates

Beth Tompkins Bates is associate professor of history in the Department
of Africana Studies and the College of Urban, Labor, and Metropolitan
Affairs at Wayne State University in Detroit.

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CIN0807849294VG
9780807849293
0807849294
Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945 by Beth Tompkins Bates
Used - Very Good
Paperback
The University of North Carolina Press
20010618
304
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