Big Bill Broonzy

Big Bill Broonzy

male, deceased (1958)
pullmanporter, CBS, African American, Melotone, singer, Busker
Big Bill Broonzy (June 26, 1893 or 1898 - August 15, 1958) was a prolific United States composer, recorder and performer of blues songs. "Big Bill"...
Joel Augustus Rogers

Joel Augustus Rogers

male, deceased (1966)
historian, journalist, author, nietzsche, pullmanporter, Man and Superman
Joel Augustus Rogers (September 6, 1880 (some sources say 1883) — March 26, 1966) author, journalist, historian was born in Negril, Jamaica. Al...

Ishmael Flory

male, deceased (2004)
University of California, African American, Major League Baseball, Civil rights activist, lake charles, pullmanporter
Ishmael Flory was born to Samuel and Leola Hancock Flory on July 4, 1907 in Lake Charles. His mother picked cotton while his father worked in...

Willie McCovey

 (San Diego, California, United States)
fairfield, Fairfield Industrial High School, manager of the Birmingham Black Barons, Mays, pullmanporter, Giants
Willie attended Fairfield Industrial High School, where he was trained to be a cleaner or presser for a laundry. He starred as a football...

Fred Armon Toomer

male
Atlanta University, auditor, congregational church, congregational, chief, memorial hospital…pullmanporter
Fred Armon Toomer was born on July 29, 1889 in Byron, Georgia in a section called Toomerville, named for his ancestors. He was one of ten children...

Joel Augustus Rogers

son of a small town school teacher (his father)
Although Joel Augustus Rogers was largely self-trained, some of the most distinguished scholars of the twentieth century have acknowledged our debt...
Employment: …Pullman porter