Last week, the Pullman Porter, most famed servant in the U. S., started to go on strike. Then, at the last moment, he changed his mind, “for obvious reasons.” But he said he would strike some other ...

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) – A charismatic centenarian believed to be the oldest surviving Pullman railcar porter has died at his Southern California desert home at age 107. Brother Andrew Isaacs tells ...

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 ...

So much cultural meaning is packed into the figure of the Pullman porter -- racial pride and racial guilt, the faded glory of the American railroad, a level of customer service now extinct -- that it ...

For most of the 20th century, if you wanted to travel in style you were traveling on trains. If you really wanted to do it up right, you shelled out big money for a private berth in something called a ...

In his book Rising from the Rails, journalist Larry Tye examines the social history of the African-American men who provided service to railroad passengers traveling in George Pullman's sleeping cars.

The elevation of the historic Pullman neighborhood to a National Monument and then a National Historical Park brought more visitors to the National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum that tells ...

Congressman Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is being honored by the National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum with the "Gentle Warrior Award." Pullman Porter Museum Kicks off Year-long Celebration in ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The only Black labor history museum in the world is celebrating 29 years, with new expansions on the way. The National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum tells the story of the ...

The Ensemble Theater’s production of “Pullman Porter Blues” recalls the generations of Black men who attended to railroad sleeper cars. In the years after the Civil War and the end of slavery in the ...