Chicago businessman George Pullman started hiring thousands of ... of overall helping to improve the working conditions for ...

George Pullman wanted to hire formerly enslaved men to work on his trains as sleeping car porters. Some historians say that ...

A Ladies Auxiliary Women’s History Museum is planned near the National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum in Pullman.

Cap worn by Pullman Porter Philip Henry Logan Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture; Gift of the Descendants of Garfield Logan, In Honor of Philip ...

Two Chicago civil rights legends, former Mayor Harold Washington and activist Asa Philip Randolph, were honored on their shared birthday.

unemployment among African-Americans was twice that of whites – mostly due to segregation. One rare opportunity came on the Pullman sleeper trains, where most of the porters were black.

During its heyday, nearly 30 years after Pullman’s death, the company ran 9,800 cars and employed more than 20,000 African American workers, including some 12,000 porters and perhaps 200 maids, as ...

In the 1920s, black workers employed by the Pullman Company as porters and maids mobilized to create the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, becoming the first African American labor union to secure ...

And about a third of the old-time cowboys were black, according to Watts. Pullman-car porters working on the railroads also contributed a sizable influx of African-Americans. "It was seen as a popular ...

Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum ... union to be chartered under the American Federation of Labor…. If the Pullman Company accused the men working as porters of participating in union ...

The porters’ employers, The Pullman Company ... Randolph demonstrated that African Americans could affect a positive difference to their lives. He went on to be a prominent campaigner for ...

This inspiring story of the Pullman porters provides one of the few accounts of African American working life between the Civil War and World War II. Describes the harsh discrimination which lay ...