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The Porter
Resource type
Authors/contributors
- Officer, Charles (Director)
- Thorne, R.T. (Randall T.) (Director)
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
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