The Rise and Fall of the Pullman Porters

The Brotherhood and its members had gone up against a white power structure and eventually won. The Porters used all this experience to become important sources of information and organization throughout the civil rights movement. A lot of people really stopped seeing the Pullman Porters as the labor and civil rights champions that they had been for so many years. And instead they remembered the part where African American Porters cow-towed to white passengers for tips.