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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 ...

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 ...

Sometimes, dignity can come with something as simple as a name tag. In 1925, dignity came for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters when the organization got a charter from the American Federation ...

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 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 ...

ATLANTA - Dressed in an authentic Pullman Porter jacket and the same cap his grandfather wore decades ago, Robert West looks at a passing train and sees more than just transportation. He sees a legacy ...

Artist Shane-Jani Jackson will showcase paintings that explore the legacies of Pullman porters and maids. He discovered last ...

A. Philip Randolph set the stage for the Civil Rights movement by forming and leading the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925, which 10 years later became the first African American labor ...

Pullman porters became an important conduit for spreading information and new ideas to black communities. The editor of the Chicago Defender, one of the largest and most important black newspapers, ...

Black Nouveau: Dasha Kelly Hamilton, Pullman Porters, MPS & College Signing Day. This month on Black Nouveau: Dasha Kelly Hamilton returns home to discuss new projects, we explore the legacy of ...