Larry Tye, Author & Journalist

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PEOPLE MAGAZINE

Rating: ***

Ever made a bed aboard a moving train? In the century before the
civil rights movement, that and other menial chores were performed
by African-American men, usually Southerners, hired by the Pullman
Company to serve white passengers in sleeper cars. Deferential to
customers yet managing, as one ex-porter told Tye, to "look, listen
and learn," the men organized in 1925 to form the Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters--the first black union admitted into the
powerful American Federation of Labor. Thorough yet never dull,
Tye, a longtime reporter for The Boston Globe, casts his subjects
with honor and dignity. He weaves their stories together with those
of paternalistic mogul George Pullman and black union activist A.
Philip Randolph, fleshing out the history of a labor movement that
set the stage for 1963's March on Washington.