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Additional authors

1. Beasley, Samuel, 1907-
2. Wilson, Joseph, 1951-
3. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Description

1. 1 videodisc (38 min.) : sound, color; 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Mr. Beasley talks about his childhood, employment before and with the Pullman Company, and race relations in the U.S. Family history and childhood; race relations in South Carolina as a child; employment history during school and college; employment with the Pullman Company; segregation during employment; feelings about the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Pullman Company; brief comments on A. Philip Randolph, politics and the civil rights movement; effect of his job on his family; today's race relations and the differences between those relations in the north and south; message to youth.

Alternative title

1. Interview with Samuel Beasley

Subject

1. Railroads > Employees
2. Filmed interviews
3. Railroads > Employees > Labor unions > United States
4. African Americans > Employment
5. United States > Race relations
6. Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
7. Interviews
8. Black films and programs
9. Race discrimination > United States
10. Biographies
11. Porters > United States > Biography
12. Beasley, Samuel, 1907- > Interviews
13. Porters > Labor unions > United States

Genre/Form

1. Interviews.
2. Biographies.
3. Black films and programs.
4. Nonfiction films.

Call number

1. Sc Visual DVD-1504

Note

1. Taped at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, New York.

Biography (note)

1. Mr. Beasley worked as a porter for the Pullman Company for forty-four years beginning in 1928 and was a member of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.

Title

1. An Interview with Mr. Samuel Beasley/ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interviewed by Joseph Wilson.

Imprint

1. 1989-06-28.

Type of content

1. two-dimensional moving image

Type of medium

1. video

Type of carrier

1. videodisc

Digital file characteristics

1. video file DVD

Biography

1. Mr. Beasley worked as a porter for the Pullman Company for forty-four years beginning in 1928 and was a member of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.

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1. Request Access to Schomburg Moving Images and Recorded Sound

Added author

1. Beasley, Samuel, 1907- Interviewee
2. Wilson, Joseph, 1951- Interviewer
3. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Research call number

1. Sc Visual DVD-1504