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February 9, 2024
We're honoring Black History Month at the Black Cat House by showing _10,000 Black Men Named George_ for our February movie. It's a 2002 Made-for-TV movie directed by Robert Townsend. It stars Andre Braugher, Charles S. Dutton, and Mario Van Peebles. It is a dramatization of labor activist A. Philip Randolph's work to unionize the Black porters of the Pullman Rail Company in the early 1900s. The film's title refers to the Pullman company's official policy for its passengers to address all of the porters as "George" because George Pullman was their boss and owner of the company. The film has been praised for its depiction of the unique struggles of the Pullman porters and the union organizers who represented them, as both had to simultaneously deal with Jim Crow racism as well as the working-class struggle to organize labor at a time when unions had far fewer legal rights.
Discussion will follow the film.
This event is free and open to the public. The Black Cat House welcomes all ages, and is a drug and alcohol-free venue. To help keep everyone safe and healthy, we ask that all guests wear face masks in our space. We are wheelchair accessible.