A century can seem like a long time, especially given the accelerating rate of change that oppresses all of us. At the same time, 100 years is one long lifetime. Almost 100,000 now-living Americans ...

“The Porter,” airing Thursday on American Public Television’s GBX 44, is an 8-episode historic drama about the nation’s first Black workers’ union. The Pullman porters worked on the transcontinental ...

The Black railroad car attendants made a lasting impact on American history. One leader of the Pullman porters' labor movement settled in Bayfield County, and his legacy is coming to new light. Jerry ...

In 1925, labor organizer and civil rights activist A. Philip Randolph was invited to be the first president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Maids. It was the first Black union to ...

This 1982 documentary details the history of the Black Pullman Porters who organized for the right to unionize and form the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Narrated by the activist, educator, and ...

Pullman porters did more than carry bags, they paved the way for higher education opportunities, the professional working class and the fight for equal rights. Lauren A. Degener, Marketing Content ...

The legacy of industrialist George Pullman, the factories that produced his sleeping, dining and parlor rail cars, and the Pullman Porters and their impact on the labor movement have long been ...

A South Side Chicago institution is honoring a historic milestone. On Aug. 25, 1925, Pullman porters formed what would become a historic union representing train workers. A century later, the ...

Founder of National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum Dr. Lyn Hughes and President and Executive Director of National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum Dr. David Peterson (Photo courtesy ...

Photograph of Pullman Porters. Left to right: Conductor D. R. Stump, Attendant A. Batac, Porter L. Garner, Porter W. T. Bratton, Attendant H. H. Sewell, Porter C ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The rails in Pullman are empty, but the company town was bustling in the late 1800s. "Men, women and children coming from all corners of the world and all striving for the opportunity ...