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Porters Fought for the Right to Be Conductors

Canadian railways hired Black men as sleeping car porters from the late 1800s but barred them from conductor jobs. After the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters filed a 1953 federal fair employment complaint, George V. Garraway became the first Black conductor on a Canadian railway, in 1954 or 1955 depending on the source.