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 ... on a desk in Washington, D.C.’s Union ...

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 ...

Chicago's Pullman porters formed the first all-Black labor union in the U.S., paving the way for civil rights advancements. A ...

A century ago this year, on Aug. 25, 1925, 500 Pullman Co. railroad porters ... by the American Federation of Labor. Forming a union helped the porters get higher wages, more benefits and improved ...