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, but behind that welcoming ...

Please check your inbox for your confirmation. After Lyn Hughes took a walking tour of Chicago’s Pullman neighborhood in 1990, she decided to create a museum around its critical connection to the ...

*A couple of years after the Civil War, a Chicago businessman by the name of George M. Pullman had begun hiring thousands of former slaves to serve White passengers that traveled in luxurious railroad ...

BD: How did you come up with the idea/storyline for Pullman Porter Blues? CW: First, the history of the Pullman porters is a great American story, a story of this country’s first organized black labor ...

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VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) – A charismatic centenarian believed to be the oldest surviving Pullman railcar porter has died at his Southern California desert home at age 107. Brother Andrew Isaacs tells ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The rails in Pullman are empty, but the company town was bustling in the late 1800s. "Men, women and children coming from all corners of the world and all striving for the opportunity ...

Last week, the Pullman Porter, most famed servant in the U. S., started to go on strike. Then, at the last moment, he changed his mind, “for obvious reasons.” But he said he would strike some other ...

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In his book Rising from the Rails, journalist Larry Tye examines the social history of the African-American men who provided service to railroad... Pullman Porters, Creating A Black Middle Class In ...