Table of Contents

Preface   xi
Introduction: The Brotherhood Story   1
1. The Case against Pullman   19
2. "It Was the Women Who Made the Union": Organizing the Brotherhood   36
3. Striking for the New Manhood Movement   53
4. The First Ladies' Auxiliary to the First International Negro Trade Union in the World   71
5. "A Bigger and Better Ladies' Auxiliary"   95
6. "The Duty of Fair Representation": Brotherhood Sisters and Brothers   116
7. Union Wives, Union Homes   138
8. "We Talked of Democracy and Learned It Can Be Made to Work": Politics   163
9. "Disharmony within the Official Family": Dissolution of the International Ladies' Auxiliary, 1956-57

Appendix: BSCP Ladies' Auxiliary Membership, 1940-56   199
Notes   201
Index   259

Illustrations follow page 94

About the Author

Melinda Chateauvert is an activist and historian located in New Orleans and Washington, DC. She is the author of Sex Workers Unite! A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk.

Reviews

"A remarkably nuanced portrait of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. . . . Chateauvert unearths and dissects this story through impressive research and keen understanding."--Walter Licht, author of Industrializing America: The Nineteenth Century