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An Interview with Mr. Samuel Beasley

Title
An Interview with Mr. Samuel Beasley/ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interviewed by Joseph Wilson.
Publication
1989-06-28.

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Additional Authors
  • Beasley, Samuel, 1907-
  • Wilson, Joseph, 1951-
  • Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Description
1 videodisc (38 min.) : sound, color; 3/4 in.
Summary
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
Interview with Samuel Beasley
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Interviews.
  • Biographies.
  • Black films and programs.
  • Nonfiction films.
Note
  • Taped at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, New York.
Biography (note)
  • 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.
Call Number
Sc Visual DVD-1504
OCLC
24086655
Title
An Interview with Mr. Samuel Beasley/ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interviewed by Joseph Wilson.
Imprint
1989-06-28.
Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
Type of Medium
video
Type of Carrier
videodisc
Digital File Characteristics
video file DVD
Biography
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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Added Author
Beasley, Samuel, 1907- Interviewee
Wilson, Joseph, 1951- Interviewer
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Research Call Number
Sc Visual DVD-1504
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