When A. Philip Randolph assumed the leadership of the
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, he began a ten-year
battle to win recognition from the Pullman Company, the
largest private employer of Black people in the United
(5) States and thecompany that controlled the railroad
industry’s sleeping car and parlor service. In 1935 the
Brotherhood became the first Black union recognized by a
major corporation. Randolph’s efforts in the battlehelped
transform the attitude of Black workers toward unions and
(10) toward themselves asan identifiable group; eventually,
Randolph helped to weaken organized labor’s antagonism
In the Pullman contest Randolph faced formidable
obstacles. The first was Black workers’ understandable
( 15) skepticism towardunions, which had historically barred
Black workers from membership. An additional obstacle
was the union that Pullman itself had formed, which
weakened support among Black workers for an
(20) The Brotherhoodpossessed a number of advantages,
however, including Randolph’s own tactical abilities. In
1928 he took the bold step of threatening a strikeagainst
Pullman. Such a threat, on a national scale, under Black
leadership, helped replace the stereotype of the Black
(25)worker as servantwith the image of the Black worker as
wage earner. In addition, the porters’ very isolationaided
the Brotherhood. Porters were scattered throughout the
country, sleeping in dormitories in Black communities;
their segregated life protected the union’s internal
(30) communications frominterception. That the porters were a
homogeneous group working for a single employer with
single labor policy, thus sharing the same grievancesfrom
city to city, also strengthened the Brotherhood andencour-
aged racial identity and solidarity as well. But it wasonly
(35) in the early 1930’sthat federal legislation prohibiting a
company from maintaining its own unions with company
money eventually allowed the Brotherhood to become
recognized as the porters’ representative.
Not content with this triumph, Randolph brought the
(40)Brotherhood into theAmerican Federation of Labor, where
it became the equal of the Federation’s 105 other unions.
He reasoned that as a member union, the Brotherhood
would be in a better position to exert pressure on member
unions that practiced race restrictions. Suchrestrictions
were eventually found unconstitutional in 1944.
108. In using the word “understandable” (line 14), theauthor most clearly conveys
(A) sympathy with attempts by the Brotherhoodbetween 1925 and 1935 to establish an independent union.
(B) concern that the obstacles faced by Randolphbetween 1925 and 1935 were indeed formidable
(C) ambivalence about the significance of unionsto most Black workers in the 1920’s.
(D) appreciation of the attitude of many Blackworkers in the 1920’s toward unions. (D)
(E)regret at the historical attitude of unionstoward Black workers.
不是前面就有一句“In the Pullman contest Randolph faced formidable
obstacles”还有就是愣是想不通D哪个地方对啊？我第一个就把D排除了，觉得应该选个贬义的选项。。。。。。
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