"It was clear to me what was going on in their heads was 'What's going on here? I thought the guy I talked to on the phone was black.' But these are very polite gentlemen, and 15 minutes into the conversation, it really didn't matter. These were men in their late 80s, 90s, one was 102, and they didn't want their stories to die with them. It was me or nobody and 15 minutes into the conversation, it didn't matter what color I was."
| A quote from Larry Tye, author of "Rising From the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class," in Jennifer Lord's MetroWest Daily News article "Telling their stories: History of Pullman porters penned by Cambridge man"
Also: "Gives us a more accurate and complete picture of the struggle for dignity"
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