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Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle is a 1982 documentary film about a group of Pullman car porters who organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters - claimed to be the first African American trade union. The film examines issues of work, race and dignity.
This oral history documentary tells the story of the Pullman porters who organized the first Black labor union. A group of retired porters board an old passe...
Directed by Paul Wagner in 1982, this film offers a comprehensive history of the Black Pullman porters who fought for equal pay and treatment, despite racial discrimination, through the organization and formation of a union during the Jim Crow Era.
3 de nov. de 2009 · To watch the entire documentary, to read background information and to order DVDs, visit: http://newsreel.org/video/MILES-OF-SM... "Miles of Smiles" chronicles the organizing of...
Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle: Directed by Paul Wagner. With Lawrence W. Davis, C.L. Dellums, Ernest Ford Jr., Green Glenn. The film chronicles the organizing of the first Black trade union the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
22 de oct. de 2018 · Watch trailer. Genres: Documentary, Drama. Duration: 59 minutes. Subtitles: English. Availability: Limited + Show. The story of the organizing of the first black trade union - The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters - provides an account of African American working life between the Civil War and World War II. Rent $2.99. 48-hour streaming period.
Aboard an old Pullman car sitting ghostlike on an overgrown siding, the porters reenact how they gave smiling service night and day. But these "miles of smiles" disguised a monumental organizing effort. After a 12-year struggle, the Pullman Company caved in to the porters, led by A. Philip Randolph.
