Pullman Porters, Creating A Black Middle Class

NPR Fresh Air | May 8, 2009| | Copyright

DAVE DAVIES
NPR Fresh Air
05-08-2009
Pullman Porters, Creating A Black Middle Class

Host: DAVE DAVIES
Time 12:00-13:00 PM

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This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies filling in for Terry Gross. Tomorrow is National Train Day and a good time for us to remember a uniformed cadre of railmen who defined a period of American train travel and became an agent of social change, the Pullman porters. They got their name from George Pullman, who started a train company in the 1860s that had sleeping cars and promised luxury travel. The passengers were assured of special treatment ...

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