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 ...

…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.

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 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 porters created the first black labor union in America, which was recognized formally in 1937. And through it, they changed the course of history by securing better wages and shorter ...

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 ...

On his first day of work on a passenger train in 1943, James Smith didn't get a chance to drink in the landscape on the run from Los Angeles to Portland, Ore. He was deep inside the galley of the ...

A sense of just how much the Pullman porters risked was on view in Cheryl L. West’s play, “Pullman Porter Blues,” seen at the Goodman Theatre in 2013 and set on board the Panama Limited, the ...

The article, which chronicled Gibson’s move to Los Angeles in 1935 in search of a better life and the introduction that landed him a job with Union Pacific Railroad in 1936, touched readers.

Pullman porters, many of whom were African American, were men hi… Rick Moss showed some of the items from the Pullman porters collection at the African American Museum and Library at Oakland.

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 ...