Founded by Lyn Hughes in 1995, the A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum is the first African American labor history museum in the nation. It pays tribute to A. Philip Randolph, one of the most influential African-American leaders in history, and the Pullman Paters, an African-American railroad union.
Their pioneering efforts created the first bona fide union for the African American workers, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Their victorious struggle in America’s early labor movement was also the doorway through which many civil rights gains were made.
