Tagged: Pullman Porter Blues,

5:28am

Mon October 1, 2012
Arts

At Seattle Rep, a play about the Pullman Porters

Credit Andry Laurence

Seattle Repertory Theatre opens its season Wednesday with a world premiere play about a group of African American workers known as the Pullman porters.

"Pullman Porter Blues" looks at three generations in one family of porters. The Pullman porters were former slaves who worked on a luxurious fleet of sleeper cars beginning in the late 19th century. Their descendants worked the trains up until the 1960s.

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