The Pullman Company never saw them as the skilled, vital workforce that they in fact were. - [Narrator] Porters routinely worked 20-hour shifts several days in a row and were away from their ...

The Pullman Company tried to fire her husband, but she stood up to them. She also founded and became president of the Brotherhood’s International Ladies’ Auxiliary Order, ...

‘Pullman Company Maids’ exhibit captures Black women’s work experience during Jim Crow Long overshadowed by the porter men, the maids were smaller in number.

George M. Pullman died in 1897, and the following year, the Illinois Supreme Court ordered the Pullman Company to sell all its properties not used for industry — including the company residences.

The brothers have lived in Pullman their entire lives, growing up in what was once a company town for the Pullman Railroad Car Company. Both worked at the factory from 1959 until its closure in 1981.

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 derogatory acknowledgment that ...

Resident and Pullman historian Andy Bullen will showcase samples from the foundation’s collections, including Pullman blankets, china, recipe cards, and correspondence to the Pullman Company ...

George Pullman created a company town for his employees, but it came at a cost for his workers, while benefitting Pullman’s bottom line. Aired 10/06/2023.

Pullman was among the country’s first planned company towns and founded in the 1880s to house Pullman factory workers. The workers launched a national strike in 1894 that was a major milestone ...