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Los Angeles marks centennial of Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Summary
The Los Angeles City Council and visiting descendants and labor leaders commemorated 100 years since formation of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, highlighting the union’s role in labor and civil-rights history and its links to Los Angeles migration and leadership.
Councilmember Mark Ridley-Thomas’s (on the record as Councilmember Harris Dawson in this excerpt) presentation on Oct. 3, 2025, marked the centennial of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first all-Black union formed in 1925. Councilmembers, descendants, union leaders and community organizations recounted the porters’ organizing against exploitative conditions and their influence on later civil-rights organizing.
Councilmember Harris Dawson said the…
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