Railroads formed the backbone of America. Starting in the 1800s, trains hauled millions of pounds of freight and passengers daily from point A to point B.

Its history not only preserved through its architecture and its role in the labor movement, but by two brothers who worked ...

Pullman porters did more than carry ... 1937 Annual Convention of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car porters Chicago History Museum, ICHi40065 The Fight for Equal Rights Randolph used the success ...

The BriefOne hundred years ago, Chicago's Pullman porters formed the first all-Black labor union in the U.S., paving the way for civil rights advancements.A. Phillip Randolph and Milton P. Webster ...

Bolt, a professor of history ... book documenting the lives of poor Americans towards the end of the century, exposed the realities faced by millions of people, such as having 12 adults sleeping ...

You’ll be fed locally-inspired cuisine at your seat or go to a gourmet meal in the dining car, depending ... in groups of two since sleeping accommodations are Pullman double bedrooms.

Born Rosina Budd Harvey in 1881, the native Washingtonian served as a pivotal force of sistership for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP ... hosting private meetings for Pullman Company ...

The Pullman National Monument is a National Park Service site built on what used to be one of the earliest industrial communities in the USA, a place created to produce Pullman sleeping cars ...

This week, the historic community of Pullman on Chicago’s Far South Side is celebrating 10 years of being part of the National Park Service. Andrew Ramos reports on two brothers now in their 80s who ...

CANNOT WAIT FOR TULIP TIME. IT’S SUCH A NEAT THING. WELL, AN IOWA AUTHOR IS HOSTING A BOOK DRIVE THIS MONTH CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY AND CULTURE. THE IDEA OF THE COLLECTION OF BOOKS IS TO START ...