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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

So much cultural meaning is packed into the figure of the Pullman porter -- racial pride and racial guilt, the faded glory of the American railroad, a level of customer service now extinct -- that it ...

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.

For most of the 20th century, if you wanted to travel in style you were traveling on trains. If you really wanted to do it up right, you shelled out big money for a private berth in something called a ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The only Black labor history museum in the world is celebrating 29 years, with new expansions on the way. The National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum tells the story of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are advisories posted at the Ensemble Theatre during its run of Cheryl L. West’s play-with-music, Pullman Porter Blues (2012). Trigger warnings for smoking, simulated sexual assault, coarse ...