The Porter

Resource type
Authors/contributors
Title
The Porter
Abstract
In the early 1920s in St. Antoine, Montreal, train porters Junior Massey and Zeke Garret, and their families, colleagues, and community pursue diverging paths to a better life. --Website description. The 8-episode series depicts the history of Black Canadian and African-American men who worked as Pullman porters in the period following World War I, leading to the 1925 creation of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters as the first Black-led labour union. --From Wikipedia article
Network
CBC
Date
2022
Running Time
46-54 min.
Language
English
Citation
Officer, C., & Thorne, R. T. (Randall T. ). (2022). The Porter. CBC. https://gem.cbc.ca/the-porter