Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Series A, Parts 1-3 on Microfilm, 1925-1969
Collection Number: 6110 mf

The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) was, in 1925, the first labor organization led by blacks to receive a charter in the American Federation of Labor (AFL). It merged in 1978 with the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks (BRAC), now known as the Transportation Communications International Union. The leaders of the BSCP-including A. Philip Randolph, its founder and first president, and C. L. Dellums, its vice president and second president-became leaders in the civil rights movement and continued to play a significant role in it after it focused on the eradication of segregation in the South. BSCP members such as E. D. Nixon were among the leadership of local civil rights movements by virtue of their organizing experience, constant movement between communities and freedom from economic dependence on local authorities.

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Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Series A, Parts 1-3 on Microfilm #6110 mf. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

The container list for Part 1 of this collecion can be found in the University Publications of America finding aid and is available here.

The container list for Part 2 of this collecion can be found in the University Publications of America finding aid and is available here.

The container list for Part 3 of this collecion can be found in the University Publications of America finding aid and is available here.