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Pullman Porters. Rising From The Rails. Part One.

Nov 22, 2011, 08:37 PM

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Larry Tye tells the story of America's Pullman porters from their early days when freed slaves were given jobs as sleeping car attendants by George Pullman through to their creation of a union and eventual leadership of the the black middle class.

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