In 1925, dignity came for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters when the organization got a charter from the American Federation of Labor. The men were issued name tags. Since the Pullman ...

Hughes, founder of the National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum, and her son, David Peterson, the current president, ...

In 1925, the Pullman Porters formed the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first all-Black union in the country. “The union actually wound up being a leader in the Civil Rights Movement in ...

The little-known story of the wives and maids who helped propel the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters to a groundbreaking agreement with the Pullman Company. Rosina Corrothers-Tucker had spent days ...

Our mission is to promote, honor and celebrate the legacy of A. Philip Randolph, Pullman Porters, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and contributions made by African-Americans to America’s ...

After the Civil War, George Pullman wanted to hire formerly enslaved men to work on his trains as sleeping car porters. Some historians say that created economic advancement for newly emancipated ...

A century ago this year, on Aug. 25, 1925, 500 Pullman Co. railroad porters ... in the U.S. They launched the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, with A. Philip Randolph as president.

The legacy and impact of George Pullman and the Pullman Porters are featured in murals displayed along the Kennedy Expressway.

Miles of Smiles chronicles the organizing of the first black trade union - the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. This inspiring story of the Pullman porters provides one of the few accounts of ...

Asa Philip Randolph founded and became the leader of The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP ... supplement their income. The porters’ employers, The Pullman Company, refused to listen ...