The Black Worker (Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters). Vol. 3. No. March 21, 1932.

Contents: Some Pullman Porter Grievances, Preachers Endorse Brotherhood, Negro Women Turn Attentions to Problems of Labor, Congress Passes Anti-Yellow Dog Contract Bill, Mexican Pullman Porters Threaten Strike, Brotherhood Forms Nucleus in Cincinnati, The Social Club, Achievements of the Brotherhood, Totten Making Vigorous Fight in New York District, Live Wire Club Doing Effective Work.

In the vanguard, A. Philip Randolph, whose ‘Messenger’ magazine epitomized the ‘New Negro’ of the 1910s, begin using the term ‘Black’ as opposed to colored or negro in the 1920s. ‘The Black Worker’ was the official organ of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Begun in November, 1929 it was edited by Randolph and would be published for the next forty years. The Brotherhood was founded in 1925 with individual branches joining the AFL in the 1929 and the union as a whole in 1933. The most important Black-led union of its times, the BSCP merged with the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks, now the Transportation Communications International Union, in 1978.

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