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Ted Pontiflet says farewell to Oakland
November 26, 2010
Ted Pontiflet is an Oakland icon. He is East Coast swing meets West Coast bop. Classy. The man is too smooth to be close to 80. Ted is around until Dec. 1 and then away he goes.
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Filed Under: Culture Stories
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Good Americans: The dark side of the Pullman Porters Union
September 6, 2010
As we celebrate the 85th anniversary of the founding of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, America’s first African America labor union, let us not forget that African American rail workers were instrumental in organizing not only the sleeping and chair car porters, but the dining car workers as well.
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Filed Under: California and the U.S.
Tags: 1973 Sixth Pan Africa conference • A. Philip Randolph • AFL (American Federal of Labor) • Albuquerque • apartheid • Bayard Rustin • Berkeley • Black middle class • Black Radio Report • Black Scholar • Black union • Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters • C.L Dellums • capitalism • chair car porters • Chicago • CIO • Civil Rights • Claude Lightfoot • colonialism • dining car workers • equal rights • George Pullman • Ishmael Flory • Israel • Jack Tar Hotel • Jean Damu • Kit Carson Hotel • Miles of Smiles • New Mexico • N’COBRA(National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America) • Oakland • Paul Robeson • Paul Wagner Films • post-bellum South • Pullman Car Co. • racism • rail workers • Roscoe Procter • Rosina Tucker • San Francisco • Santa Fe Railroad • segregation • South Africa • Steering Committee of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration • Tanzania • Thurgood Marshall • Tony Monteiro • U.S. labor movement • University of California • University of New Mexico • Viet-Nam • W.E.B. DuBois • white supremacy • William Patterson • Years of Struggle
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