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
Transportation Communications Union
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
Transportation Communications International Union
…as the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks and includes within it many other organizations, including the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen of America and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, that have merged with it since 1969. The union was founded in 1899 by 33 railroad clerks meeting in Sedalia, Missouri, who formed an organization named…
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