…so Pullman porters unionized In 1925, a group of porters decided they’d had enough. They went to A. Philip Randolph, a prominent labor rights advocate, and asked him to help them form a union.

In his nine years as a Pullman porter, Benjamin Gaines waited on high society types as they traveled across the country aboard luxury rail cars. Gaines, who moved to Chicago in 1945, washed dishes ...

Pullman Porters Helped Others Reach Their Destination. February 26, 2008. By David Montgomery. So much cultural meaning is packed into the figure of the Pullman porter -- racial pride and racial ...

The Pullman porter, whose gentle manner, endless smile and willingness to please, was once one of America’s most recognized and ubiquitous figures for the traveling public, ...

Pullman Porters are seen in these historic photos (from left to right): 1. J.W. Mays, a Pullman porter, from 1894-1900. 2. Pullman porters receive reservation diagrams for their trains through ...

We are on the eve of Juneteenth and one place that's going to be celebrating in a big way: the Pullman Porter Museum! We're ...

Since the Pullman Company began employing Black men — many former slaves — as porters to wait on passengers in 1867, they were simply called “George” as a derogatory acknowledgment that ...

Pullman porters wore many hats. In a collection of essays that chronicles the development of the Black Press, “The African American Newspaper: Voices of Freedom” by Patrick S. Washburn, ...

The Pullman porters laid the seeds of civil rights activism through their labor struggle. A. Philip Randolph led the efforts to unionize. Chicago Stories is available to stream on pbs.org and the ...

Locally, not much is known about the Pullman Porters who worked and lived in Amarillo, as they’ve all since died. Local ...

In Pullman, a mural created this year aims to capture the history of the Pullman porters.. Artist Joe Nelson, who goes by CUJODAH, worked with Union Pacific Railroad and the National Park ...