| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Beth Tompkins Bates. Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925–1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2001. Pp. xiv, 275. Cloth $45.00, paper $17.95.

The years between the coming of World War I and the closing of World War II were a time of tremendous flux in the tone and tenor of African-American politics. A succession of watershed moments, from the Great Migration and the New Negro to the Great Depression and the New Deal, not to mention the transformative epochs of the wars themselves, opened old established strategies to growing challenge from within black America. For all their ideological diversity, newer voices shared an impulse to enlarge the ranks, broaden the aims, stoke the urgency, and step up the militancy of black political enterprise. Essential to this insurgent outlook was the promotion of unionism as a vehicle for black advancement. In this short yet finely textured study of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), Beth Tompkins Bates recaptures a historic campaign to fuse, to their mutual enrichment, the traditions of organized labor and civil rights protest. In the process, she helps to bridge, to their mutual enrichment, the historiographies of black and working-class America. . . .

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