Identifier:

117658

Scope and content:

This series includes invitations to screenings of 10,000 Black Men Named George, a transcript of the speech given by Ferne Margulies when she accepted the American Family Insurance American Legacy Trailblazer Award for her deceased husband, a research file on Pullman porters, a DVD of the finished film, and drafts of various versions of the the movie's script.

Biographical / historical:

10,000 Black Men Named George was a made-for-TV movie that first aired on Showtime in 2002. Margulies was one of the film's executive producers. The film tells the story of how Asa Philip Randolph organized the black porters of the Pullman Rail Company to form the first African-American union in the United States.

Arrangement:

This series is arranged in alphabetical order by file name.

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