The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2014

⏱️ 32 minutes

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The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters became the first African-American labor union to be recognized by the American Federation of Labor. What started as a campaign for more money and better treatment became an important force for social change.

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0:30.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from HowSupports.com.
0:35.7	Hello and welcome to the podcast.
0:45.2	I'm Tracy B. Wilson.
0:46.7	I'm Holly Fry.
0:47.7	So Holly, yeah.
0:48.7	When you took US history classes that talked about the civil rights movement,
0:53.7	do you feel like a lot of the focus was on the things that African Americans were not allowed to do?
1:01.7	So like the entirety of the focus.
1:03.7	Yeah.
1:04.7	So like being barred from the schools and the restrooms and other whites only places,
1:09.7	being kept from voting, being denied legal protections that white people really took for granted.
1:15.7	Like all of that kind of stuff feels like a big part of the context for the civil rights movement
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