- Collection:
- Selections from the Collections of the Tubman African American Museum, 1800-2012
- Title:
- Pullman porter hat
- Date of Original:
- 1940/1969
- Subject:
- Pullman porters--United States--Uniforms
Train attendants--United States--Uniforms
African American train attendants--United States--Uniforms
Uniforms--United States - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- caps (headgear)
leather
polyester fibers
metals - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Pullman porter cap.
Pullman porters worked on sleeping cars for the United States passenger rail system from the 1870s through the 1960s. Though pay was low by contemporary standards, in a time of harsh racial prejudice and segregation, being a Pullman porter was one of the best jobs available for African Americans. In 1924, A. Philip Randolph led the movement that resulted in the creation of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first black labor organization to receive a charter in the American Federation of Labor.
Purchase of the Tubman African American Museum. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:tbmn_sftm_tm07292011-88
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/sftm/do:tm07292011-88
- Rights Holder:
- Please contact the Tubman African American Museum re: reproduction and usage. The information contained in this resource may not be re-purposed, reproduced, quoted without proper citation, or offered for sale in any form without the express written permission of the Tubman African American Museum.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Selections from the Collections of the Tubman African American Museum, 1800-2012, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Extent:
- 1 hat : leather, polyester, and metal ; 9 x 21 x 26 cm.
- Holding Institution:
- Tubman African-American Museum
- Rights:
-
