
SYMHC Classics: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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The Relationship Between Our Brains and Our Experiences
David Eagleman: In 1880, the Pullman Company built a town of Pullman as worker housing. He says porters were required to answer to their master's name and sometimes called by a racial slur. Porters who tried to unionize faced retaliation in the form of being branded troublemakers or even fired, he says. Watch Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman every week on iHeartRadio.
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