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1894, Nicks in the Boot Heels: How Pullman Porters pass on Information Regarding Travelers., Edward Rosewater

The article reveals how the porters hide messages in the shoe heals of their customers to inform other porters of the personality of the customer. A…

Tags: Journal, Pullman Porters

Pullman Company Will Not Arbitrate in Porters FIght, 19 August, 1927

In 1927, a letter from Edwin P. Morrow in the Omaha Monitor, exposing the pullman company refuses to arbitrate with the porters, although they had…

1914, Pullman Conductors and Porters Organize

News item in the 1914 Day Book outlining the unfair treatment and salary of the Pullman Porters. In 1914 a car port received $27.50 a month while…

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress., Pullman Porters File Petition With Commerce Commission, !6 September, 1927

Monitor article about the petition that the BSCP filed to the Interstate Commerce commission on 7th September, 1927. They requested an investigation…

Score Pullman Strike Betrayal

Statement of the Central Executive of the Workers (Communist) Party accusing the Brotherhood leaders of not standing up against race segregation in…

1946-1953, The Voice. (1946-19530 Lincoln, Nebraska.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/2019270505/, Shakespeare, Melvin L

This is the complete run of The Voice newspaper (Scanned PDF's of all pages in each issue. ). This was a weekly African American newspaper published…

Tags: African American Newspaper, Newspapers

University of Nebraska-Lincoln 1900, The Way To Go To California, Courier Pub. Co.

Article in the LIncoln Courier. Describes the way to travel to California taking the Burlington Train Route. The train leaves Omaha and travels…

Tags: Newspapers, Pullman Porters

G. W. Bonnell, C. P. & T. A., Through Tourist Sleepers to the Northwest, Courier Pub. Co.

Newspaper column in the Courier (Lincoln, Ne) informing readers of the newly established Burlington Route, that ran twice a week from Kansas Cita…

Tags: Newspapers, Pullman Porters

To Federal Court- Mason Todd Sues for wrongful arrest., Ancestry.Com, Lincoln Daily News, 1913

Notice in the Lincoln News announcing that Mason Todd sues Mrs Sodeberg for $5,000 stating that she caused his wrongful arrest and imprisonment.

Tags: Mason Todd, Pullman Porters