International President of The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and civil rights leader
Subtitle: and related material
By: Cottrell Laurence Dellums; tape recorded interview conducted by Joyce Henderson in 1970-1971. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1973 :
Contributors: Henderson, Joyce.; Pittman, Tarea Hall.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.; Earl Warren Oral History Project (Bancroft Library); Online Archive of California.
Published: 1970
Subjects: Randolph, A. Philip 1889-; Warren, Earl, 1891-1974.; Pullman Company.; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.; Labor unions -- United States.; Strikes and lockouts -- California -- San Francisco.; African Americans -- California -- Oakland.
Description: Comments on work for the Pullman Co. as porter; formation of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and offices held in the union; friendship with A. Philip Randolph; fight against discrimination in unions; Earl Warren; 1934 San Francisco waterfront strike; association with N.A.A.C.P.; establishment of the California Fair Employment Practices Commission and his service with the Commission. Photographs inserted.
Table of contents: value: Reel 1: Feb. 15, 1970, track 1: 1098 ft., track 2: 1098 ft.; value: Reel 2: Jan. 13, 1971, track 1: 1101 ft., track 2: 1107 ft.; value: Reel 3: Feb. 26, 1971, track 1: 1104 ft., track 2: blank; value: Reel 4: Apr. 14, 1971, track 1: 1000 ft., track 2: 455 ft.; value: Reel 5: May 12, 1971, track 1: 1028 ft., track 2: 247 ft. Interview notes also available.; value: Phonotapes :