Research Catalog

Title

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters collection, 1937-1991.

Author

Davis, Jessica Bell, -1991

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

.8 lin. ft.

Summary

• The Jessica B. Davis, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters collection consists of the constitution and history of the BSCP, programs, anniversary and commemorative booklets, speeches and writings by A. Philip Randolph, and news clippings by and about Randolph. There are also tributes to this union leader during his lifetime, and an address and press release for the 1942 planned March on Washington.
• Additionally, there are yearbooks and other printed material from the A. Philip Randolph Campus High School at City College in New York City (1983-1989), and representing both the St. Catherine A. M. E. Zion Church in New Rochelle, New York and the Key Women of America are programs, newsletters and other printed material. Included are a few letters and an obituary for Davis.

Subjects

• Key Women (New York, N.Y.)
• Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
• St. Catherine A.M.E. Zion Church (New Rochelle, N.Y.)
• Railroads > Labor unions > United States
• African Americans > Employment
• Working class > United States
• A. Philip Randolph Campus High School (New York, N.Y.)
• Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979
• Porters > Labor unions > United States
• African American churches > New York (State) > New Rochelle
• Negro March on Washington Committee

Note

• Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.

Source (note)

• Estate of Jessica Bell Davis

Biography (note)

• Jessica Bell Davis (?-1991) was the daughter of an official of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, James H. Bell and also the wife of the union official, Clarence E. Davis. She was a teacher in addition to a director and supervisor under A. Philip Randolph, for whom she worked for forty-five years.
• The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) organized railway porters (traditionally an occupation for African Americans) to bargain with the Pullman Company, which held a virtual monopoly on the nation's sleeping car facilities. The BSCP was organized in 1925 in New York City. A. Philip Randolph, an editor and labor advocate, became its president in 1928. In the mid-1930's the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the New Deal's National Mediation Board recognized the BSCP.

Call Number

Sc MG 426

OCLC

122363950

Author

Davis, Jessica Bell, -1991, collector.

Title

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters collection, 1937-1991.

Biography

Jessica Bell Davis (?-1991) was the daughter of an official of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, James H. Bell and also the wife of the union official, Clarence E. Davis. She was a teacher in addition to a director and supervisor under A. Philip Randolph, for whom she worked for forty-five years.

The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) organized railway porters (traditionally an occupation for African Americans) to bargain with the Pullman Company, which held a virtual monopoly on the nation's sleeping car facilities. The BSCP was organized in 1925 in New York City. A. Philip Randolph, an editor and labor advocate, became its president in 1928. In the mid-1930's the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the New Deal's National Mediation Board recognized the BSCP.

Source

Estate of Jessica Bell Davis Gift SCM 91-54.

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Research Call Number

Sc MG 426