Artwork by J. C. Leyendecker for the cover
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#OTD in 1934 - another Red Cap porter
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‘GOODBYE - SVMMER’
#Illustration by J. C. Leyendecker (1874-1951)
Cover of *The Saturday Evening Post*, September 15, 1934
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text from https://aaregistry.org/story/the-red-cap-porter-a-brief-article/ Image: Portrait of African-American Red Cap Porter carrying luggage. 1930s-1940s from https://fineartamerica.com/featured/1930s-1940s-portrait-smiling-african-vintage-images.html

Porters under the leadership of #APhilipRandolph. Until desegregation had its effect in the United States in the 1960s, the occupation of porter was almost the exclusive province of African American and Black Canadian men.’
- African American Registry
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