Garrard Wilson “Babe” Smock, who worked for the Pullman Company from 1937 until 1960, with his daughter, Errica. (Lee Wexler photo)
Elaine Jones's role model when she ran the NAACP Legal Defense Fund was her father, G.R. Jones, who spent 19 years as a Pullman porter. (Lee Wexler)
Ernest Porter, at age 102, worked as a Pullman porter from 1947 until 1964. (Lee Wexler)
Pullman porter John Baptist Ford of New York with his family in 1924 after he delivered a lecture to students at Dartmouth College. (Corbis)
A Pullman porter keeps a watchful eye on a vacationing family enjoying the scenery from the rear platform of a Canadian Pacific train in the mid-1890s. (Canadian Pacific Railway)
Troops arrive in 1894 to restore order in the town George Pullman founded and named after himself just outside Chicago. (Chicago Public Library)
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