In ANOTHER two parter (I know! I know!) we're talking the 1894 Pullman Strike, when predominantly white factory workers living and working in the company town of Pullman went on strike. This one didn't end the most hopefully, with business cartels playing dirty, federal troops getting called in to violently suppress the strike, and strike leaders being arrested.

BUT in our second part, we'll cover the work that Black porters and maids at Pullman were doing undercover to develop their own union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and how their movement would grow to result in not just the first negotiated bargaining contract between Black workers and a company in the U.S. but the birth of wider civil rights activism.

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