For nearly 100 years before George Lewis even started his railroad journey, Black men...
George Lewis holds a picture of himself working on a train at his home in Spring. For nearly 40 years, Lewis, now 75, worked as a pullman porter for Union Pacific and later as a chef for Amtrak.To serve people in the way that George Lewis did requires an attention to detail.
They provided white-glove service in plush dining cars and sleeping cabins. They loaded luggage, ironed clothes and did whatever task was demanded of them. They were overworked, often clocking in nearly 400 hours or more a month; they were underpaid and faced persistent racism and indignities as they served white passengers across the country.
“I stood on the shoulders of a lot of Black men who worked hard, should have been paid their worth and gotten the respect they deserve,” said Lewis, who will talk about the legacy of Pullman porters for the Galveston Railroad Museum’s Juneteenth program on June 18. The event is open to the public.We want to foster conversation and highlight the intersection of race, identity and culture in one of America's most diverse cities.
“Stanley Marcus saw something in me that no one else had seen since I had worked in retail about six or seven years by then. I was working two jobs to pay bills. I got the offer to work on the railroad, but he couldn’t do anything for me and wasn’t going to try. He did have his limits.” Although the Pullman Co. merged with another in the 1930s, the term “Pullman porter” remained synonymous with the railroad service role.
By the late 1970s and ’80s, more Black people were traveling by train. That was something that gave Lewis considerable pride.
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