A. Philip Randolph was the determined, dedicated, and articulate president of this union who fought to improve the working conditions and pay for the Pullman Porters. By the 1920s, 20,224 African-Americans were working as Pullman Porters and train personnel, the largest category of black labor in the US and Canada. This was the very first African-American labor union to sign a collective bargaining agreement with a major U.S. corporation.
Posted on: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 01:11:51 +0000
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