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Title:Miles of smiles, years of struggle [videorecording] : the untold story of the black Pullman porter / Columbia Historical Society in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution's Office of Folklife Programs ; produced and directed by Jack Santino and Paul Wagner.
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Published/Created:San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, [200-?], 1983.
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Physical Description:1 videodisc (58 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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Notes:Contains parts 1 and 2.
This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play in all DVD players or drives.
DVD release of 1982 motion picture originally released by California Newsreel in VHS format in 1983.
Public performance rights granted.
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Summary:This documentary discusses the struggle of Black Pullman porters to unionize, even though rebuked by white organized labor, and the eventual formation of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters under A. Philip Randolph. Explores the impact of this group on the American civil rights movement.
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Variant and related titles:Untold story of the black Pullman porter
- Format:Visual Material
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Credits:Interviews, Jack Santino ; director of photography, John Hiller ; editor, Paul Wagner.
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Performers:Narrator, Rosina Tucker.
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System details note:DVD-R.
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Subjects:Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters--History.
Porters--United States--History.
African American labor union members--History.
Discrimination in employment--United States--History.
Race discrimination--United States--History.
Civil rights--United States--History.
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Genre/Form:Documentary films.
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Also listed under:Santino, Jack, film director.
Wagner, Paul, 1948- film director.
Tucker, Rosina Corrothers.
Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.)
Smithsonian Institution. Office of Folklife Programs.
California Newsreel (Firm)
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/9565243