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, ...

Pullman Porters feature prominently on a mural displayed along the Kennedy Expressway near North Avenue, offering some North Side exposure to Chicago’s only National Park property.

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 ...

One hundred years ago, Chicago's Pullman porters who worked on the historic railway here helped form the first all-Black labor union in the U.S. In a FOX 32 special report, ...

Locally, not much is known about the Pullman Porters who worked and lived in Amarillo, as they’ve all since died. Local historians we spoke with told us that a gentleman named Charlie Wilson was ...

Pullman sleeping cars’ high-quality customer service required porters to tote luggage, serve food, shine shoes, wake passengers, clean berths, make beds, comfort crying babies and perform myriad ...

Congressman Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is being honored by the National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum with the "Gentle Warrior Award." Pullman Porter Museum Kicks off Year-long Celebration in ...

So the National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum at the corner of 104th and Maryland Ave., which was founded in 1995 by Dr. Lyn Hughes, is doubling in size.

Hughes, founder of the National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum, and her son, David Peterson, the current president, recently discussed their ...

Former first lady Michelle Obama’s great-grandfather was a Pullman Porter. Today, Pullman is home to 6,856 people of whom nearly 77% are Black, according to the 2018-2022 American Community ...

Congressman Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is being honored by the National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum with the "Gentle Warrior Award." Pullman Porter Museum Kicks off Year-long Celebration ...