In this episode we're continuing the Pullman saga, but this time we're talking about the Black porters and maids who were busy developing their own union (with the coolest name) the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Their slow but steady 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. Let's get into it!

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