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 ...

…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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 joined this morning by David Peterson to tell us more.

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.

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 ...