The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Maids was a labor union in the United States. Founded in 1925, it was the first labor organization led by African Americans to receive a charter in the Amer
Coverage of the 25th anniversary of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in The Chicago Defender, September 23, 1950
A Pullman Porter, photographed in Chicago in 1943
A Pullman Porter making the bed of an upper berth, 1942
The Transportation Communications Union is the successor to the union formerly known as the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks and includes within it many other organizations, including the Brotherhood of
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
…transportation in the 1960s, BSCP membership declined. It merged in 1978 with the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks (BRAC), now known as the Transportation Communications International Union. In the 1920s and 1930s the Pullman Company was one of the largest single employers of black people and had created an image for itself of enlightened…
Transportation Communications Union