Movie Description:
When the Great Depression struck America in the 1920s finding work was hard, but if you were poor and black it was virtually impossible. Working as a porter for the Pullman Rail Company was an option, but it meanttaking home a third as much as white employees and working some days forfree. You could forget about being called by your real name- all black porters were simply called "George" after George Pullman, the first personto employ emancipated slaves. Asa Philip Randolph, a black journalist and educated socialist tryingto establish a voice for these forgottenworkers, agrees to fight for the Pullmanporters` cause and formthe first black union in America. Livelihoods and lives would be put at risk in the attempt togain 10,000 signatures of the men known only as "George." This is the true storyof how a courageous leader came to be known as "the most dangerous man inAmerica."
