National APR Pullman Porter Museum

The Re-CYCLING History: Black Metropolis/Pullman Porter Great Migration Trail Cultural and Environmental Education Program. It is a yearlong program designed to connect the history of Black Chicago and the environmental sustainability of Bronzeville and Pullman.

A temporary and traveling exhibition based on the historic and landmark contributions of African Americans to Americas’ labor movement. A focus of the exhibition is to convey pictorially the powerful compelling story of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters complemented by a multi-media technology component Curated specifically with the target audience of the African American students in mind, the goal of the exhibit will be to highlight major aspects of social, political and educational underpinnings of, in most cases, a racially divided nation, seen through the eyes of Americas organized labor history.

Civic education workshops: The purpose to get the general public to think critically and discuss how we can improve our country. The ultimate goal, of these free gatherings, to help participants gain or re-gain understanding of our government in the context of political development over time.
It is this aspect of American citizenship, the ability to impact our policies and representatives, which is so crucial to our political structure. These discussion-centered around the goal to help citizens understand and utilize their individual rights that were granted in the founding documents.
The active engagement of citizens in the direction of our city, our state, and this country is paramount in creating a successful future.

Teens produce and perform in our onsite outdoor concert series

To enable the African American population to identify with their cultural heritage connection, to Pullman. The informal workshop series is trying to accomplish, both physically and culturally, is to utilize cultural inspiration to change a communities mindset. The Pullman National Monument is changing every day. Plans are being made and it is extremely important that the northern half of the Pullman National Monument, where the population is 95% African America, be made to feel a part of, the exciting new development and further, that their legacy, is just as important as Pullman's architecture.