OAKLAND, CA: Amtrak is honoring the black men who worked as attendants on trains in the early 1900s – the Pullman Porters – in celebration of the history of the railroad in general, as well as Black History Month. The railroad planned an event for today, February 10, in conjunction with Chicago's A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum - the third in a series that kicked off last February in Washington.
Amtrak originally conceived of the program specifically for employees and ...