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Four Recall Their 30 Odd Years as Pullman Porters
In Chicago 1942 arrivals Lonnie Salters Lester Taylor Booker Pemphrey and Maurice Smith joined the Pullman porters and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. They recall pride hardship and the merger with the Airline and Railway Clerks amid a history of discrimination and travel.
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Pullman
N.Y. Times News
Chicago
Lonnie Salters
Myers
Newton County
Mass
Lester H. Taylor
Memphis
Booker T. Pemphrey
Arkansas
Maurice D. Smith
Pullman Company
Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters
United States
Brotherhood of Airline and Railway Clerks
Sleeping Car Brotherhood
Taylor
Pumphrey
Smith
South Side
Marian Anderson
Betty Grable
Harry James
Bing Crosby
Salters
Washington
Civil Service
Canada
Mexico