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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…

Sanborn Map Company, Sep 1886, Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Lincoln, Lancaster County, Nebraska., The Sanborn Company, 1989

Image of The 1886 Sanborn Map of Lincoln in giving details of individual buildings. Published by Sanborn Company for insurance companies liability…

Railroad station- LIncoln, Nebraska, Lee, Russel, Newberry Library, 1948

Railroad Station in downtown Lincoln, Nebraska. The Krantz Manufacturing Co and the John Grier Co building can be seen near the station.

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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…

Pullman Porter Preparing a Bed, William, Frank Pullman Company, Newberry Library

A Pullman Porter preparing a bed.

Pullman porter making up an upper berth aboard the "Capitol Limited," bound for Chicago, Illinois, Delano, Jack, photographer, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
, 1942

A photograph of a Pullman Porter making the upper bed in the sleeper.

Tags: Pullman Porters

Pullman Porter Helping a Woman, Unknown, 1880

A Pullman Porter carrying the bags of a woman boarding the train.

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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…

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…

Pullman Company Employee Service Card, Malcolm Little, Pullman Company Personnel Administration Department., 1922

Employee Service Card from Pullman Company. Malcolm Little (Malcolm X) employment card of May 19th, 1922. The card showed that he resigned and he…

Tags: Pullman Porters