Personally, I think "ALL Lives Matter" but that is irrelevant to the situation now.

If you saw someone drowning, screaming "Help me" would you stand there with your arms crossed and say "Help EVERYONE."?

To answer the questions of what to do about Jim Crow cars. Just state that there are sad but necessary remind her of our troubled past that need to be remembered and encourage visitors to defy the signs and maybe take selfies and tag them #defiance. Pullman was actually a story of Triumph in the African American community because it has petacular the racism backfired. You had a group of people they were integral to the trains operation and all shared common interests Covington to unionize and demand better treatment.

To answer the questions of what to do about Jim Crow cars. Just state that there are sad but necessary remind her of our troubled past that need to be remembered and encourage visitors to defy the signs and maybe take selfies and tag them #defiance. Pullman was actually a story of Triumph in the African American community because it has petacular the racism backfired. You had a group of people they were integral to the trains operation and all shared common interests Covington to unionize and demand better treatment.

My comment concerning whether your organization stands in support of BLM is more about are you willing to admit that there is systemic racism, that there is major work which needs to be done to bring true equality to everyone, and your organization will commit itself to bring that inclusion? If so, put that message on your website, in your newsletters, or even in a press release. Then DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!

Chuck Richards of East Troy Railroad Museum?

Jacob Lyman: Please elaborate more on ideas in your call for action. Saying "DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT" is vague and not necessarily as effective as outlining what that "something" is. Thanks.

This is, historically, where most every such radical activist movement loses its support.

In transportation history, this probably reached its epitome with the 1995 controversy over the display of the fuselage of the Enola Gay at the National Air & Space Museum--whether its use ended a huge war and saved soldiers' lives, or whether the bomb was a needless, racist, genocidal attack on civilians.

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As a result of this controversy, when the restored aircraft was finally put on full display in 2003, it was done without ANY interpretive signage whatsoever, pro or con, just raw data. And even that was deemed unacceptable to those with agendas to promote still, most notably anti-war/anti-nuclear advocates.

In most cases, there is plenty of room for negotiation and compromise between such divergent avenues of rhetoric. Unfortunately, there are a few prominent exceptions that feel that, for example, the only answer for the existence of a "Jim Crow" car or a statue of anyone with a "skeleton in the closet" is to destroy it--and if you won't, they will.

What I plan to do about it.

I am making plans for February of next year (our off season) in concert with African-American History Month to do a series of website and Facebook posts on the the racial issues of the Pullman Company, the Porter's first union, how prisoners were used to build railroads, and the passing of the old school gandy dancers from mechanization and the base of the gandy dancer work song from the old work songs.

To address the history, we have to acknowledge the bad. To ignore the bad, is to ignore the history.