Jock Ellis Cumming, GA US of A Georgia Association of Railroad Passengers
QUOTE: Originally posted by Penn Central Black In this age of practically everybody wishing to be politically correct, why do so many well meaning people insist on calling Sleeping Car Porters "PULLMAN PORTERS"?. Study of the labor and human rights struggle will reveal that it is/well known that it was considered improper and rude to call a porter: "GEORGE" . This implied that the porter was "George Pullman's "BOY". So why, again, must we give the Porter Mr Pullman's name as part of his title. He is NOT George Pullman's BOY, he is: a SLEEPING CAR PORTER by title. I am a bit suprised in that even some hard researching authors have made this mistake many times.
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