pullman porters

Traces the social history of the Pullman porters, African-American men who served the Pullman Company in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, focusing on how their experiences shaped the African-American middle class.

Examines the life and accomplishments of Ray Lewis, the first Canadian-born black man named to a Canadian Olympic track-and-field team in 1932.

A short biography of Nat Love, an African-American cowboy during the 1800s.

Presents the poem of Langston Hughes in which highlights the courage and dignity of the African American Pullman porters in the early twentieth century.