; and (C) set a national example for the ability of working people in the United States to change the existing system in favor of more just practices for protecting workers rights and safety; (6) following the deaths of a number of workers at the hands of the United States military and United States Marshals during the 1894 strike, Congress unanimously voted to approve rush legislation that created a national Labor Day holiday, which was signed into law by President Grover Cleveland 6 days after the end of the strike; (7) the Pullman Palace Car Company also played an important role in African-American and early civil rights history through the legacy of the Pullman porters, many of whom were ex-slaves and employed in a heavily discriminatory environment immediately following the Civil War; (8) the Pullman porters, who served diligently between the 1870s and the 1960s, have been commended for— (A) their level of service and attention to detail; and (B) their contributions to the development of the African-American middle class; (9) the information, ideas, and commerce the Pullman porters carried across the country while traveling on trains helped to bring education and wealth to African-American communities throughout the United States; (10) the positive role of the Pullman porters in the historical image of the first-class service that was made available on Pullman cars is unmistakable; (11) the Pullman community was the seminal home to the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, which— (A) was founded by civil rights pioneer A. Philip Randolph in 1925; (B) was the first African-American labor union with a collective bargaining agreement; (C) fought— (i) against discrimination; and (ii) in support of just labor practices; and (D) helped lay the groundwork for what became the great Civil Rights Movement of the 20th Century; (12) the Pullman community is— (A) a paramount illustration of the work of architect Solon Spencer Beman