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To watch the entire documentary, to read background information and to order DVDs, visit:
newsreel.org/video/MILES-OF-SMILES-YEARS-OF-STRUGGLE
"Miles of Smiles" chronicles the organizing of the first black trade union - the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. This inspiring story of the Pullman porters provides one of the few accounts of African American working life between the Civil War and World War II.
TO BUY THE DVD OR TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS FILM: newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0059
To watch the entire documentary, to read background information and to order DVDs, visit:
newsreel.org/video/MILES-OF-SMILES-YEARS-OF-STRUGGLE
"Miles of Smiles" chronicles the organizing of the first black trade union - the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. This inspiring story of the Pullman porters provides one of the few accounts of African American working life between the Civil War and World War II.
TO BUY THE DVD OR TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS FILM: newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0059
