Cottrell Laurence Dellums was an American labor activist and one of the organizers and leaders of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
Dellums c. 1920s
A statue of C.L. Dellums at the Amtrak station in Jack London Square in Oakland, California
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Founded in 1925, The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Maids, commonly referred to as the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), was the first labor organization led by African Americans to receive a charter in the American Federation of Labor (AFL). The BSCP gathered a membership of 18,000 passenger railway workers across Canada, Mexico, and the United States.
A Pullman Porter, photographed in Chicago in 1943
A Pullman Porter making the bed of an upper berth, 1942