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"Lyn Hughes, founder of the A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum"

"Larry Tye, who authored Rising from the Rails: The Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class"

"one of the very best a black man could aspire to... The porter reigned supreme on George's sleeper cars."

"Thomas Fleming began his career as a bellhop and then spent five years as a cook for the Southern Pacific Railroad."

"Amtrak enlisted the APR Pullman Porter Museum, and partnered with them using the registry"

"From: Gregory Brown Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2017 9:04 AM Subject: Greg Brown's Weekend Reading"

"George Pullman pioneered sleeping accommodations on trains... Soon, The Pullman Rail Car Company was the largest employer of blacks in the country"

"Marshall was also a porter himself"

"Marshall was also a porter himself, as were Malcolm X"

"he gave every porter $100.00, but it was just the fun, the excitement, the respect that he gave the porters"

"In 1867, Pullman revolutionized rail travel when he introduced his first hotel on wheels, the President"

"In 1926, the SPCSCPG persuaded the Pullman Company to install small racks in each car, displaying a card with the given name of the porter on duty."