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An interview with Paul Johnson

Title
An interview with Paul Johnson / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interviewed by Joseph Wilson.
Author
Johnson, Paul, 1910-
Publication
New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1989.

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Additional Authors
  • Wilson, Joseph, 1951-
  • Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Description
2 videodiscs (89 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Paul Johnson talks about his early life, his work as a porter for the Pullman Company, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and racial discrimination at work and in the army ; family and childhood; race relations in Savannah, Ga.; first jobs; education; cleaner of Pullman cars; why he moved to NYC; work at 1939 World's Fair; porters' duties and sleeping arrangements; communists in BSCP; discrimination in Pullman Co.; how he joined BSCP; opinion of later BSCP; treatment by passengers; tips; treatment by Pullman Co.; discrimination in army; participation in BSCP; civil rights; BSCP and civil rights; message to young people.
Donor/Sponsor
Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Interviews.
  • Oral histories.
  • Nonfiction films.
Credits (note)
  • Interviewer, Joseph Wilson.
Terms of Use (note)
  • Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
Biography (note)
  • Mr. Johnson is a retired Pullman porter who worked in the railroad industry for 39 years, and a former member of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
Call Number
Sc Visual VRA-102
OCLC
945700295
Author
Johnson, Paul, 1910- interviewee.
Title
An interview with Paul Johnson / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interviewed by Joseph Wilson.
Publisher
New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1989.
Country of Producing Entity
United States.
Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
Type of Medium
video
Type of Carrier
videodisc
Digital File Characteristics
video file DVD
Credits
Interviewer, Joseph Wilson.
Event
Recorded June 28, 1986. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York.
Terms Of Use
Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
Biography
Mr. Johnson is a retired Pullman porter who worked in the railroad industry for 39 years, and a former member of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
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Added Author
Wilson, Joseph, 1951- interviewer.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Research Call Number
Sc Visual DVD-1346
Sc Visual VRA-102 Service copy.
Sc Visual VRB-1490-1491 Original of: Sc Visual VRA-102.
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