10, 000 Black Men Named George

The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BCSP) was created August 25, 1925 as a union for Pullman porters and maids. While the script and storyline of this movie does not make reference to female membership directly, there are visual references to female voting membership in the meetings and especially in the voting lines, especially as depicted in the union/police confrontation scene towards the end of the movie. The BSCP was the first Afro-American labor organization to receive a charter (membership) in the American Federation of Labor (AFL), and continued to be an active member union of the AFL up to and including the 1955 merger of the AFL with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) to form the AFL-CIO.

During the Depression, A. Philip Randolph makes a trip to Chicago in the early 1930s. During the stock footage, there is a clip of an L train from the 1950s.

This film is dedicated to all the men and women who were involved in the struggle to organize the Pullman porters.