Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle
Description
In telling the story of the organizing of the first black trade union - The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters - this program provides an account of African-American working life between the Civil War and World War II. Narrator Rosina Tucker, a 100-year-old union organizer and porter's widow, describes how after a long struggle led by A. Philip Randolph, the porters won the first contract ever negotiated with black workers. The film describes the harsh discrimination which lay behind the porters' smiling service and reveals a key source of the Civil Rights movement.
Runtime
58 min
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Date of Publication
[2012], c1989
Database
Films on Demand
Direct Link
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