The fact that the meeting was even happening was enough to produce an air of subversive excitement. On August 25, 1925, a century ago this year, black sleeping car porters hoping to form a union at ...

The Pullman Palace Car Company is up there with the Union Stockyards and the steel mills of the Southeast Side when it comes to Chicago industrial history. As host Mary Jane Hayes put it in a May 1980 ...

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Small booklet with a brown paper cover outlining an agreement between the Pullman Company and those employees represented by the Brothernood of Sleeping Car Porters. This agreement was revised and ...

In a brick house in Pullman, visitors can step back in time by more than 120 years. The kitchen has an icebox from circa 1900 that once stored ice from Lake Calumet. The parlor features gas lamps, ...