Marching Together uses gender as a category of analysis alongwith race and class to reinterpret the history of the Brotherhood of SleepingCar Porters from its inception in 1925 until the mid-1950s. Chateauvertskillfully accomplishes four goals. First, she provides a detailed account ofthe individual and organizational contributions of porters' wives tobuilding the Brotherhood in local communities, belying the union'slegendary account of courageous men of color battling a racist labor movementand exploitative corporations on their own. Second, she provides an analysis ofthe gender norms that governed the Brotherhood's organization and policies.Third, Chateauvert provides a critique of the union's treatment of womenporters. Fourth, she provides a portrait of the civil rights activism of theBrotherhood and its Ladies' Auxiliary between 1941 and 1956. Based on awealth of archival and published sources, Marching Together provides amultifaceted and sophisticated analysis of the way that gender norms andcustomary practices operated among Northern working-class AfricanAmericans.