Pullman car

The ceremony was conducted by a railway chaplain, and a wedding breakfast was served in a Pullman car.

Among the most consequential unions was the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, founded in 1925 by Black employees who worked Pullman cars on the railroads.

“The Pullman maids, as is the case for women in so many other histories, too often get forgotten or even hidden from the story of the Pullman cars,” England said.

Across the way, a Victrola plays music in an old Pullman car, which sits behind a silver Chicago L-train car.

White was born in 1918 on Chicago’s South Side to a black domestic worker who had migrated from Mississippi, and a Pullman car porter of Native American decent.