SYMHC Classics: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
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The History of the Pullman Cars
The first Pullman porter was hired in 1867. By the 1920s, more than 20,000 African American men were employed as Pullman porters and other train personnel. The base salary for this work was about $817 a year in the 1920s.
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