No More Pullman Company in 1969

From the January 2, 2019, MidWeek  "Looking Back."

1969, 50 Years Ago.

"Railroad sleeping cars, operated 110 years by the Pullman Co., are now in the hands of the 34 railroads which still pull them.

"On New Year's Day, Pullman ceased providing conductors, porters, linens and maintenance service for the cars."

That's How the Pullman Goes.  --Cooter

National Museum African American History-- Part 3: Emmett Rill's Coffin and Lunch Counter Stools

Visitors to the museum will see a 19th century slave cabin and the glass-topped coffin in which the body of 14-year-old Emmett Till was placed after his brutal murder in Mississippi in 1955.  His death became a catalyst for the modern civil rights movement.

There is also a 77-ton Pullman Palace passenger car from the Jim Crow era and  Woolworth's lunch counter stools from Greensboro, N.C. where four black students carried out the 1960 sit-in that helped topple segregation.

Pullman porters were black men and was a big step up to middle class status.

A Lot of History.  --Cooter