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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters charter application (front), 1936.
Jurisdictional claims resolved, the AFL granted a charter to the BSCP in January 1936. The BSCP was the first all-black union to receive an AFL international charter -- eight years after its initial application. On June 7, 1936, AFL President William Green presented the charter at a mass meeting in Chicago's DuSable High School. BSCP merged with the Transportation Communications International Union (then known as the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks) in 1978. Click here for the back page of the application. Photograph courtesy: George Meany Memorial Archives. |
