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The work culture for the Pullman porters was rooted in the legacy of slavery. ... The numbers of surviving Pullman porters are dwindling today. The Brotherhood ended in 1978, when declining rail travel reduced its ranks, and the union merged with the larger, integrated Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks.
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www.post-gazette.com/lifestyle/20020224pullman0224fnp2....
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Pullman Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Pullman Palace Car Company , founded by George Pullman, manufactured railroad cars in the mid to late 1800s through the early decades of the 20th century, during the boom of railroads in the Uni...
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But Pullman porters are the tightest-lipped of all men, and the travelling public knows little more of their lives and work than it does of the people of Mars. Strange bits of drama flit past their terribly keen if guarded vision.
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www.scsra.org/library/porter.html
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This book is about a group of African American Pullman car porters, under the leadership of Randolph, who pressed the claim that they had the right, as Americans, to live and work on an equal basis with white Americans.
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www.ibiblio.org/uncpress/chapters/bates_pullman.html
www.ibiblio.org/uncpress/chapters/bates_pullman.html
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Aggressive attempts to organize the Pullman porters in an independent union attracted public attention about 1920. Toward the end of that year the Pullman Company countered with the usual device of company unionism.
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newdeal.feri.org/nation/na35217.htm
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Evolution of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), the first Black union ... By the 1920s, a peak decade for the railroads, 20,224 African-Americans were working as Pullman Porters and train personnel. At that time, this was the largest category of black labor in the United States and Canada...
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www.aphiliprandolphmuseum.com/evo_history4.html
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The A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum commemorates the history of Asa Philip Randolph and the Pullman Porters who made up the membership of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) union. ... © 2002 - 2009 A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum. All rights reserved. Contents of the site may not be used...
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Phil Randolph and the Pullman Porters ... When the Pullman porters came into the dining car where I worked, they had to pay for their meals, although they got a deduction. They arrived before the first call for breakfast was made through the train. Most porters ate only two meals a day.
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