Porters
The Pullman Company was also noted for its porters. The company hired mostly black men for this position. In addition, men of Filipino descent were also hired for club car service. Although a porter's occupation was menial in some respects, it offered better pay and security than most jobs open to blacks at the time, as well as an opportunity to travel the country. Pullman porters were unionized in the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters under A. Philip Randolph. At one time, Pullman was the largest employer of blacks in the USA.
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“For we are not pans and barrows, nor even porters of the fire and torch-bearers, but children of the fire, made of it, and only the same divinity transmuted, and at two or three removes, when we know least about it.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)