Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle
Publisher:
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description
The story of the organizing of the first black trade union - The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters - provides an account of African American working life between the Civil War and World War II. Miles of Smiles chronicles the organizing of the first black trade union - the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. This inspiring story of the Pullman porters provides one of the few accounts of African American working life between the Civil War and World War II. Miles of Smiles describes the harsh discrimination which lay behind the porters' smiling service. Narrator Rosina Tucker, a 100 year old union organizer and porter's widow, describes how after a 12 year struggle led by A. Philip Randolph, the porters won the first contract ever negotiated with black workers. Miles of Smiles both recovers an important chapter in the emergence of black America and reveals a key source of the Civil Rights movement. "One hundred years of history is spanned in an enlightening portrait of admirable dignity." - New York Times "A moving account of the Pullman porters' remarkable (and largely untold) history." - Washington Post.
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Subjects
African American membership
African Americans
African Americans -- History
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Train, Chair Car, Coach Porters and Attendants
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters -- History
Civil rights
Civil Rights -- History -- United States
Civil rights -- United States -- History
Discrimination in employment
Discrimination in employment -- United States -- History
Documentary films
Educational films
Ethnicity
History
Internet videos
Labor unions
Labor unions -- African American membership -- History -- United States
Labor unions -- United States -- History
Nonfiction films
Race discrimination
Race discrimination -- Discrimination in employment -- History -- United States
Race discrimination -- United States -- History
Racism
Videorecording
African Americans
African Americans -- History
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Train, Chair Car, Coach Porters and Attendants
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters -- History
Civil rights
Civil Rights -- History -- United States
Civil rights -- United States -- History
Discrimination in employment
Discrimination in employment -- United States -- History
Documentary films
Educational films
Ethnicity
History
Internet videos
Labor unions
Labor unions -- African American membership -- History -- United States
Labor unions -- United States -- History
Nonfiction films
Race discrimination
Race discrimination -- Discrimination in employment -- History -- United States
Race discrimination -- United States -- History
Racism
Videorecording
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Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.)
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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters -- History
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Train, Chair Car, Coach Porters and Attendants
Civil Rights -- History -- United States
Civil rights -- United States -- History
Discrimination in employment -- United States -- History
Documentary films
Educational films
Ethnicity
Internet videos
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Labor unions -- United States -- History
Nonfiction films
Race discrimination -- Discrimination in employment -- History -- United States
Race discrimination -- United States -- History
Racism
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African Americans -- History
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters -- History
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Train, Chair Car, Coach Porters and Attendants
Civil Rights -- History -- United States
Civil rights -- United States -- History
Discrimination in employment -- United States -- History
Documentary films
Educational films
Ethnicity
Internet videos
Labor unions -- African American membership -- History -- United States
Labor unions -- United States -- History
Nonfiction films
Race discrimination -- Discrimination in employment -- History -- United States
Race discrimination -- United States -- History
Racism
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Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle
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Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle
Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle [electronic resource (video)] / California Newsreel (Firm)
Miles of smiles, years of struggle [electronic resource] / Columbia Historical Society in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution, Office of Folklife Programs ; produced and directed by Jack Santino and Paul Wagner
Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle [electronic resource (video)] / California Newsreel (Firm)
Miles of smiles, years of struggle [electronic resource] / Columbia Historical Society in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution, Office of Folklife Programs ; produced and directed by Jack Santino and Paul Wagner
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Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle
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African Americans
Civil Rights
Civil rights
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Ethnicity
History
Labor unions
Race discrimination
Racism
African Americans
Civil Rights
Civil rights
Discrimination in employment
Ethnicity
History
Labor unions
Race discrimination
Racism
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