The Road Taken
The Road Taken

The Road Taken

September 12, 1996 | 52 min

Black sleeping-car porters who worked on Canada's railways from the early 1900s through the 1960s were proud men and well-respected by their community, but harsh working conditions prevented them from being promoted to other railway jobs until 1955 when porter Lee Williams took his fight to the union.

Genres

Documentary

Cast

Share on social media

More Like This

The Third Man
The Flickering Flame
The Red Elvis
Jusqu'où ira Uber ?
Lenin kam nur bis Lüdenscheid - Meine kleine deutsche Revolution
Man Versus Man
Spies of Mississippi
TGV, la réussite française
After Breaking the Silence
Habilito: Debt for Life
Framing Britney Spears
Cooked: Survival by Zip Code
Steal This Film
1968: A Year of War, Turmoil and Beyond
Breath of Freedom
The Black List: Volume Two
The Unreserved
"They Didn't Starve Us Out": Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s
Riotsville, USA
Crude Oil