Pullman Debs

06/19/2026

It’s almost that time! We will see you tomorrow, SATURDAY JUNE 20th for the Annual Community ReCommitment Celebration Parade!
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Bring the cars out and join our annual Parade!
Bring the family out and enjoy the Festival!
Bring the kids out and enjoy games and prizes!
Come support the youth games!
Come take advantage of the resources at the Career/Resource Fair!
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For over a decade we have brought you SAFE, Culturally grounded programming for Freedom day and this year is no different. Join us for our annual “Community Re Commitment Celebration” as we partner with Chi Ball Youth League to Present the Annual “Juneteenth Youth Olympics”, Second Line Street Parade and Olympic Village Festival! Don’t miss this opportunity to come make and be a part of history!

See you there! Happy Juneteenth!

For more information visit our website:

https://www.thepullmanportersmuseum.org/

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06/18/2026

Preorder!

Forthcoming biography American Socialist: The Life and Legacy of Eugene V. Debs by Shawn Gude is available for preorder now! Preordering shows how much this kind of work matters and helps bring Debs to new readers, so claim your copy now and share widely. Link in comments 🔗

06/02/2026

Pullman Porters & Maids: Invisible Labor, Visible Legacies, curated by Juelle Daley, presents a new body of work by artist Shane-Jahi Jackson, developed through his research residency at the Newberry Library in Chicago and informed by the archives of the Pullman Company. Through an ensemble of figur...

05/26/2026

We need more protests in Pullman... This one is from 1975

Shot by Carol Turchan and Gary Frost, this 1975 footage appears to document an early–mid 1970s protest against the sale of items inside the Hotel Florence—mo...

05/17/2026

Welcome Joshua!

05/11/2026

On this day in Labor History the year was 1894. That was the first day of the Pullman Strike. The strike started in the company of town of Pullman, on the south side of Chicago, where workers made luxury sleeping cars for passenger trains.

Pullman National Historical Park, Eugene V. Debs Foundation, Friends of Pullman National Historical Park, Illinois Labor History Society

On this day in Labor History the year was 1894. That was the first day of the Pullman Strike. The strike started in the company of town of Pullman, on the south side of Chicago, where workers made luxury sleeping cars for passenger trains.

05/01/2026

From Julia Berkowitz

On this day in labor history, the year was 1919. That was the day May Day celebrators in Cleveland, Ohio were attacked as they marched to protest the imprisonment of Socialist, Eugene V. Debs. 1919 was a year of massive upheaval, marked by countless strikes and protests, riots and bomb threats. But....

05/01/2026

E.V. Debs at railroad yard, 1912