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For more than a decade, Lyn Hughes,author, cultural activist-scholar and founder of the A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum, and has generated interest in urban historic and cultural heritage preservation. She is a committed advocate for the revitalization of the Cultural and Historical Pride of the African American Community. However, her work is now being viewed at the international level as an excellent example of putting theory into practice. In1995 she founded the A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum In Chicago Illinois, the first of its kind in the nation. She established this Institution as a living example and memorial to the contributions of and the participation of African Americans in the American Labor Movement.
http://www.aprpullmanportermuseum.org/,
The publication of her book, An Anthology Of Respect: The Pullman Porters National Historic Registry of African American Railroad Employees represents a unique scholarly contribution to the fields of African American and American Labor History.
blhmuseum-bookmail@yahoo.com
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CHICAGO,IL 60680-6276
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