The Brotherhood of Sleepong Car Porters was led by A. Philip Randolph, who had not been a Pullman Porter, but had made a name for himself as a journalist and a figure in the Harlem Rennaissance.
In 1941, Randolph threatened a march on Washington, D.C., successfully pressuring President Frankon D. Roosevelt into desegregating the war industries.
"They were the grandfathers of the civil rights movement," Peterson said. "A lot of the things that the porters were fighting for are still issues that we as African Americans are still fighting for today.
"Labor Day," he added "for me running this museum represents a call to action."
--RoadDog
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