International President of The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and civil rights leader : oral history transcript / Cottrell Laurence Dellums
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Dellums, C. L. (Cottrell Laurence), Interviewee
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Comments on work for the Pullman Co. as porter; formation of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and offices held in the union; friendship with A. Philip Randolph; fight against discrimination in unions; Earl Warren; 1934 San Francisco waterfront strike; association with N.A.A.C.P.; establishment of the California Fair Employment Practices Commission and his service with the Commission. Photographs insertedPart of the African American Oral History Collection from the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, BerkeleyCopyright by The Regents of the University of California. This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
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Dellums, C. L. (Cottrell Laurence), IntervieweeHenderson, Joyce, Interviewer
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