The Black workers hired as porters and maids often encountered racism on the job. Black workers were hired to be porters and maids for the Pullman company, and had to cater to passengers’ every whim.

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This week, the historic community of Pullman on Chicago's Far South Side is celebrating 10 years of being part of the National Park Service. Its history not only preserved through its architecture and ...

The little-known story of the wives and maids who helped propel the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters to a groundbreaking agreement with the Pullman Company. Rosina Corrothers-Tucker had spent days ...

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 ...

When Andrea Terry, a principal at the Chicago architecture firm Bauer Latoza Studio began working on the renovation of the Pullman Administration Clock Tower Building in 2017, it had no floor, lots of ...

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When No. 9, the first Pullman car, left Bloomington, Ill., for Chicago on the evening of Sept. 1, 1859, it carried four passengers. They slept in wooden bunks, were warmed by a wood-burning stove. A ...

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 ...

George Pullman created a company town for his employees, but it came at a cost. George Pullman created a company town for his employees, but it came at a cost for his workers, while benefitting ...

Epic Guide to Pullman National Monument near Chicago, Illinois including things to do, history, and more. Pullman National Monument preserves one of the first planned industrial communities in America ...