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 ...

In his book Rising from the Rails, journalist Larry Tye examines the social history of the African-American men who provided service to railroad passengers traveling in George Pullman's sleeping cars.

On Aug. 25, 1925, Pullman porters formed what would become a historic union representing train workers. As Shardaa Gray reports, the Pullman National Historical Park is honoring the milestone. New ...

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 ...

The elevation of the historic Pullman neighborhood to a National Monument and then a National Historical Park brought more visitors to the National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum that tells ...

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 ...

A. Philip Randolph set the stage for the Civil Rights movement by forming and leading the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925, which 10 years later became the first African American labor ...

Before airplanes changed travel, 100,000 people slept in train cars every night. The stories of the men who staffed the most famous of those cars, the Pullman porters, was the subject of a Labor Day ...

The Pullman porters may get most of the press, but members of another group of mostly Black workers associated with George Pullman’s famous railcars are emerging from the shadows of history. Black ...