Black Women Who Powered the Labor Movement Get Their Own Museum in Chicago

Black Women Who Powered the Labor Movement Get Their Own Museum in Chicago

From L-R: State Senator Elgie R. Sims, Jr., Dr. David Peterson, Dr. Lyn Hughes, Cook County Commissioner Donna Miller, Ald. Stephanie Coleman and Cook County Commissioner Stanley Moore (Photo Credit: Tacuma Roeback). They were the wives, the fundraisers, the backbone of a movement. Now, they will finally have a place that tells their story. On a gray, drizzly Saturday in March, the National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum broke ground o…