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10,000 Black Men Named George
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| When the Great Depression struck America in the 1920s finding work was hard, but if you were poor and black it was virtualIy impossible. Working as a porter for the PulIman Rail Company was an option, but it meant taking home a third as much as white employees and working some days for free. You could forget about being calIed by your reaI name - alI bIack porters were simply caIled "George" after George PuIIman, the first person to employ emancipated sIaves. As PhiIip RandoIph, a bIack journaIist and educated socialist trying to estabIish a voice for these forgotten workers, agrees to fight for the Pullman porters’ cause and form the first black union in America. Livelihoods and Iives wouId be put at risk in the attempt to gain 10,000 signatures of the men known only as "George." This is the true story of how a courageous leader came to be known as "the most dangerous man in America." |
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