Bay Curious: Oakland’s 16th Train Station Helped Build West Oakland and the Civil Rights Movement
The Bay
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Pullman Palace Cars
The station was also home to a huge network of local trains and street cars. The pullman palace car company almost exclusively hired black men for these jobs. Many customers wouldn't even call the porters by their name, they just referred to them as george. In 19 25, the porters announced they wanted to form a union, the first black union in the country called the brotherhood of sleeping car porters. oakland played no small part that had the largest membership who supported the union efforts.
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