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Pullman porters were men hired to work for the railroads as porters on sleeping cars. Starting shortly after the American Civil War, George Pullman sought...

the United States. Beginning after the American Civil War, the job of Pullman porter had become an important means of work by African-Americans. The leaders...

these railroads would own Pullman outright. A labor union associated with the company, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, founded and organized by...

staffed by a uniformed porter. The majority of Pullman Porters were African Americans. While still a menial job in many respects, Pullman offered better pay...

The Pullman porter affair was a sex scandal involving the United States Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles in September 1940. Welles — who was a closeted...

The Pullman Porter is a 1919 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. The film is considered to be lost. Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle...

His Pullman Company also hired black men to staff the Pullman cars, known as Pullman porters, who provided elite service and were compensated only in...

Pullman Porter Blues is a 2012 play written by Cheryl West. Set in 1937, during the Great Depression, the play shows the story of the Pullman porters...

workers and managers. Also within the district is the A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum, named for the prominent labor and civil rights leader A. Philip...

Look up Pullman in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pullman may refer to: Pullman, Chicago, Illinois Pullman, Michigan Pullman, Texas Pullman, Washington...

obsolete, "attendant" being preferred. Pullman porter Society for the Prevention of Calling Sleeping Car Porters "George" Sleeping car Stewards referenced...

who interacts with the public Pullman porter, a railroad employee who assists passengers on sleeping cars Deal porter, a dockworker specializing in handling...

George Pullman of the Pullman Company, which at one time manufactured and operated a large proportion of all the sleeping cars in North America. Porters were...

1888. They lived in Denver initially. He then took a job in 1890 as a Pullman porter, which involved overseeing sleeping cars on the Denver and Rio Grande...

Brutus Jones, a resourceful, self-assured African American and a former Pullman porter, who kills another black man in a dice game, is jailed, and later escapes...

(née Matthews) (1911–2005) and Daniel Webster Riperton (1898–1991), a Pullman porter. The youngest of eight children in a musical family, she embraced the...

York City is named in his honor A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum is in Chicago's Pullman Historic District. Edward Waters College in Jacksonville...

contract with Paramount Pictures in Hollywood. He found himself playing Pullman porters while his stage role in the MGM film adaptation of Cabin in the Sky...

2013). "Larry Marshall on his role in Pullman Porter Blues". Chicago Reader. Retrieved April 24, 2017. "'Pullman Porter Blues' Travels Back In Time". NPR...

Arthur Chaney in Disney's Air Bud (1997), Hope Floats (1998), the boat hand porter in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998), a doctor in Sunshine State...