Hughes, founder of the National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum, and her son, David Peterson, the current president, ...
What we know On Wednesday, Ray Quiroz, 86, and his brother Al Quiroz, 88—two of the last living Pullman Company employees still residing in the neighborhood—reflected on the park’s significance.
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Ray Quiroz, 86, and his brother Al Quiroz, 88—two of the last living Pullman Company employees still residing in the neighborhood—reflected on the park’s significance. Arrests are made in ...
The men were issued name tags. Since the Pullman Company began employing Black men — many former slaves — as porters to wait on passengers in 1867, they were simply called “George” as a ...
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 ...
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 ...
Built at a cost of $6,162,000, the train was an expression of the best engineering talent of the railroad and of the Pullman Company. When it goes into regular service on June 15 it will cut the ...