The most influential black man in America was the Pullman porter." For his talk, Tye plans to focus on "The Pullman porters: A 100 year legacy of rising from the rails and tearing down racial barriers." He will discuss, "why what these amazing men did resonates today, more than ever." He launched the Montgomery bus boycott that sparked the civil rights movement - and tapped Martin Luther King Jr. He discovered the North Pole alongside Admiral Peary and helped give birth to the blues. He was the one black man to appear in more movies than Harry Belafonte or Sidney Poitier. DuBois, although both were inspired by him. "The most influential black man in America for the hundred years following the Civil War was a figure no one knew.
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