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African American waiter Pullman Co. Car on the New York Central Railroad Line

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The largest private employer of black labor in the United States by the 1920s, the Pullman Company provided African Americans with stable jobs as waiters and porters on train lines including the New York Central.
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Albany Institute of History & Art

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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Employees
  3. Pullman Car & Manufacturing Corp
  4. Railroad Dining Cars
  5. Railroad Employees
  6. Railroad Travel
  7. Railroads

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