WatchMeYuu's TRUE AMERICAN HISTORY - "I Make History Everyday, I Don't Need A Month" : ShoutOut to all the Pullman Porters.

In an era when America traveled by train, one of the best jobs an African-American man could land was working as a Pullman porter ... and one of the worst. The first Pullman porters, hired after the Civil War, were former slaves. Last Tuesday, Amtrak honored the legacy of Pullman porters, who fought bigotry to form the first-ever black labor union in the country in 1925, achieving better wages and shorter hours. 98-year-old Lee Gibson, a man who worked as a porter, discussed the job. -msnbc.com

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My grandfather was a Pullman Porter I had to post this... Shout Out to all the Pullman Porters.