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The light of hope clears through the smoke and takes a locomotive form as the Collins brothers stand tall in recognition of Hogan’s Alley’s rich history of sleeping car porters. By 1917, most black men in Strathcona are employed by railroad companies as sleeping car porters, one of the few jobs available due to racial discrimination. Canadian railroad companies recruited black men from the American south and the West Indies, largely to undermine their unionized white employees, and then segregated railroad work as a concession to the white-only union. In 1927 the Pullman Porter Club is established in Hogan’s Alley, a three-story brick building serving as a meeting place for black railway porters. In 1942, Frank Collins, the eldest of the four Collins brothers, becomes President of the newly instated Canadian branch of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, fighting discrimination in jobs and housing. By 1945, The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters signs a contract with CP Rail, marking the first time a union organized by black men signs an agreement with a Canadian company. 6th section of ‘Hope Through Ashes: A Requiem for Hogan’s Alley’, a @vanmuralfest mural recognizing @hogans.alley Special thanks to artists @oxana_gaida @mrscripsit @amira_at_large @kinseydeakin @reduxdelux Swipe for details >>> #painting #mural #porter #sleepingcarporters #blackporter #cnrail #railroad #railroadhistory #railroadindustry #trains #sleepingcars #canadianrailroad #collinsbrothers #dontcallmegeorge #brotherhoodofsleepingcarporters #blacklivesmatter #hogansalley #canadianhistory #blackhistory #vancouvermuralfestival #adoworks #mural #artist #blackartist #blackart #canadianartist #vancouverartist (at Vancouver, British Columbia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGVtRcQhAOs/?igshid=nyz2lp7lolu2

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