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Student will:  Comment on the political and social context of African Canadians between 1900 and the Second World War  Examine the role and experiences of Black sleeping car porters  Become familiar with working conditions of sleeping car porters before they became unionized  Investigate primary source documents, images, and artifacts to build historical knowledge  Make inferences about the artifacts relating to Black sleeping car porters  Explain how Canada’s identity has been and continues to be shaped by its global participation  Discuss the struggle for equal human rights by Blac...

Thanks to a large grant facilitated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation as well as contributions from Landmarks Illinois and local groups, the crumbling facade of Pullman's Greenstone Church steeple is being stabilized with an eye to an incremental full restoration.

The Rosenberg Railroad Museum and The Black Cowboy Museum have partnered to showcase the “Pullman Porter Exhibit,” which opens Friday and runs through May 31.  The opening of the event coincides with February, which is observed in the U.S. as Black History Month.  Cecilia Abad, the curator for the Rosenberg Railroad Museum, said the exhibit chronicles the increasing participation of African Americans in the labor force due to the westward expansion of railroad tracks from the East Coast to places like Chicago and later to the Southwest and Western U.S., including Texas followi...

intermission, in theaters across the country. it was nominated for an academy award, it was listed in the national film registry. , the documentary has been rarely seen until mail. the film has just been released, remastered with the help of the library of congress and museum of modern art in a two dvd set were selections -- with the selections on the show up democracy now!. we will go back to 1965,. and -- dr. martin luther king addressing a full chart. a few days after rosa parks sat down on the bus and launched the montgomery bus boycott. community was gathering to decide whether ...

and as we walked by, they were waiting. and i thought, okay, the general is behind me, because they had a sign. and then i thought, i should go back and talk to them. so i went back and asked them if they watched "democracy now!". and they said everyday. and i asked why they watch and they said that its objective and they cover war. it is not about whether you are for or against war. is it about the media? just come to be is a huge kitchen table that stretches across the globe and we all sit around and debate and discuss the most important issues of the day. war and peace, life and d...