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Peer reviewedPullman, A. Philip Randolph – Social Education, 2004
During the century spanning the years 1868-1968, the African-American railroad attendant's presence on the train became an American tradition. By the 1920s, a peak decade for the railroads, more than twenty thousand African-Americans were working as porters, providing a variety services for passengers on the sleeping cars. The railroad was the…
Descriptors: African Americans, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Transportation, Unions
