In a historic moment for Chicago's Pullman neighborhood, ground has been broken for the nation's first Women's History Museum ...
Chicago businessman George Pullman started hiring thousands of Black men, many former slaves, to serve passengers traveling ...
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 ...
Hughes, founder of the National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum, and her son, David Peterson, the current president, ...
The BSCP was chartered under the American Federation of Labor in 1925: it unionized Black men who worked as porters on Pullman railroad cars.
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So the train became that vehicle." It was that same year when George Pullman, a pioneer of railroad travel, had just completed the first luxury sleeping car, changing the game for cros- country ...