Kenneth Schoon 128 pages softcover
George Pullman's legacy lies
in the town that bears his name. As one of the first thoroughly planned
model industrial communities, it was designed to give the comforts of a
permanent home to the employees who built America's most elegant form
of overnight railroad travel. But the town was more than just a
residential wing of sleeper car manufacturing; its 1894 railroad strike
led to the national Labor Day holiday. In the early twentieth century,
the Pullman Company became the country's largest employer of African
Americans, who then formed the nation's first successful Black labor
union. Author Kenneth Schoon revisits Pullman's monumental history and
the lessons it continues to provide.
