Contents
- Descriptive Summary
- Scope and Content
- Scope and Content
- Conditions for Access
- Conditions Governing Use
- Preferred Citation
- Acquisition Information
- Custodial History
- Other Descriptive Data
- Other Descriptive Data
- Related Material
- Indexed Terms
Collection Access
Interviews about the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters by Greg Leroy
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Interviews about the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters by Greg Leroy
- Dates
- 1976-1983
- Creator
- LeRoy, Greg, interviewer
- Size
- about 40 sound cassettes (60 min. each)
- Language
- Material is in English unless otherwise noted.
Scope and Content
Interviews with present and former officials and members of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) or of its International Ladies Auxiliary, conducted by Greg Leroy as the labor union came to a close (dissolved 1978). The BSCP had been the largest predominantly African American union in the United States. Most interviews took place in the Chicago area or aboard trains. Leroy, who worked for Amtrak for a time, also traveled to other cities for some interviews.
Scope and Content
Persons interviewed include Lester Amack, Roosevelt Barnes, C.N. Batie, Eileen Brewer, Hubert Brown, B.F. Cannon, Walter Cole, Roland Crowder, Ulus Crowder, Robert Dean, Ishmael Flory, John Green, Essie Gilland, Fred Harris, Pauline Helm, Bert Jones, Fred Kroll, Charles R. Martin, James A. Martin, B.F. McLaurin, Horace Mealing, Carl J. Morris, Leroy Parchman, A. Philip Randolph (1977), Joseph Rauch, L.J. Shackelford, Clifford Stafford, Rex Stuart, Mike Tamaka, Rosina Tucker, Linda Wagner, Mr. Waterford, Elizabeth Webster, and Milton P. Webster.
Conditions for Access
For listening purposes, it is necessary to use a copy, not the original (and to have a listening copy made if one is not available). Check finding aid for listening copies.
Conditions Governing Use
Contact the archives for more information on licensing and permissions for use and reproduction.
Preferred Citation
A common citation for archives is as follows: Item, Folder number and/or title, Box number, Collection title, ID number, Repository name, location.
Acquisition Information
Leroy, Greg. Gift. Mr. Leroy talked with Archie Motley while doing research in the BSCP records at CHS and while conducting his interviews.Custodial History
Gift of Greg Leroy.
Other Descriptive Data
Interviews 1976-1979 were made on a single-track cassette recorder; interviews 1980-1983 were made with a two-track stereo cassette recorder. The A. Philip Randolph interview contains static or radio interference.
Other Descriptive Data
Some of these interviews were conducted with the support of a Youthgrant to Leroy from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Finding aid available online.
Indexed Terms
- Leroy, Greg -- Interviews
- Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters -- Interviews
- Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. -- Chicago Division
- Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. -- International Ladies Auxiliary
- Pullman Company -- Employees
- Pullman Company
- African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 20th century
- African Americans -- 20th century
- African American labor union members -- 20th century -- Interviews
- African American women -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Societies and clubs -- Interviews
- African Americans -- Employment -- 20th century
- Communism -- United States
- Cooperative societies -- United States -- 20th century
- Discrimination in employment -- United States -- 20th century
- Household employees -- United States -- 20th century
- Labor unions -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 20th century -- Interviews
- Porters -- United States -- 20th century -- Interviews
- Pullman porters -- Labor unions -- United States -- 20th century -- Interviews
- Railroads -- Employees -- Labor unions -- United States -- 20th century -- Interviews
- Audiocassettes
- Interviews