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Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class Parenting & Families Humour “When she’s done with a"A valuable window into a long underreported dimension of African American history."Newsday An engaging social history that reveals the critical role Pullman porters played in the struggle for African American civil rights When George Pullman began recruiting Southern blacks as porters in his luxurious new sleeping cars, the former slaves suffering under Jim Crow laws found his offer of a steady job and worldly experience irresistible. They quickly