…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 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Black workers were hired to be porters and maids for the Pullman company, and had to cater to passengers’ every whim. In doing so, they often encountered racism. Aired 10/06/2023 ...