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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPullman designated National Historical Park
Last edited Thu Jan 19, 2023, 07:11 PM - Edit history (1)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/pullman-national-monument/Pullman is a site of railroad and labor and political history. You can google all the details...
My SO grew up in Pullman in the 50's and 60's in very very modest means. Her mother was widowed while the SO was in utero, and she never knew her dad. Her life was rescued by a loving family that secured a home for her in a Pullman brownstone that had been bought by her Slovakian immigrant grandfather from the savings made as a fruit and vegetable peddler. Her mother worked in the Sherwin Williams paint facility there, and she died at age 52.
Nonetheless, like many living in Pullman, the dream of a better life was strong in the family and in the SO. She struggled, earned scholarships, in the end graduating from University of North Carolina. MANY amazing stories of families struggling and kids finally making it have come out of Pullman. There are indeed dozens of MDs, dentists, lawyers, and PhDs from her generation, rising from deep poverty of the depression, and the collapse of the Pullman Railcar industry
Now, her grandpa's rowhouse, the nest place of her life and her 2 preceding generations on Langley Ave, as humble a tenament as ever existed in any immigrant community in America, is saved on the exterior as part of the National Historic Park maybe forever. No greedy Republican president can wipe out the National Park status with the stroke of a pen.
This has been one of her lifes greatest passions... passing on the legacy of the upward dream of Pullman's international and, yes, domestic immigrants from the Great Migration. Every year she helps score essays for "Pullman Scholars" seeking scholarships.
For an elderly white woman she's feeling the celebration pretty good tonite.
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Pullman designated National Historical Park (Original Post)
Model35mech
Jan 2023
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MyOwnPeace
(16,887 posts)1. And the stories to be told......
about those that worked for Pullman - as well as those that worked on the trains in the Pullman cars - a TRUE picture of what was given by many for the growth of the United States.
SMC22307
(8,088 posts)2. K&R