| Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle
Miles of Smiles
describes the harsh discrimination which lay behind the porters' smiling
service. Narrator Rosina Tucker, a 100 year old union organizer and
porter's widow, describes how after a 12 year struggle led by A. Philip
Randolph, the porters won the first contract ever negotiated with black
workers. Miles of Smiles both recovers an important chapter in
the emergence of black America and reveals a key source of the Civil
Rights movement. |
"One hundred
years of history is spanned in an enlightening portrait of admirable
dignity." "A moving account
of the Pullman porters' remarkable (and largely untold) history." Producers: Paul
Wagner, Jack Santino
Video Purchase: $195
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Miles
of Smiles chronicles the organizing of the first black trade union
- the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. This inspiring story of the
Pullman porters provides one of the few accounts of
African American working life between the Civil War and World War II.
