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Members of what labor union helped to build the nation’s black middle class and civil rights movement?.

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Pullman Porters Helped Build Black Middle Class Porters combined their meager salaries with tips, and saved to put their children and grandchildren through college, says author Larry Tye. But their early unionizing efforts also laid the groundwork for the civil rights movement.

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