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FILE - In this Aug. 22, 2014 file photo, the Pullman neighborhood’s ornate brick homes that were built in the 1800s by industrialist George Pullman as a blue-collar utopia to house workers from his sleeping-railcar factory in Chicago. President Barack Obama is designating three new national monuments for protection as historic or ecologically significant sites, including the Pullman neighborhood in Chicago where African-American railroad workers won a historic labor agreement. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

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Arkansas River flows through the proposed national monument in Browns Canyon north of the town of Salida, Colo., in the state's southwestern mountains on Dec. 6, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Colorado Republicans blast Obama’s latest national monument as land grab

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

E. Donald Hughes is one of the last members of the first African-American labor union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. His mother, Inell Hughes, was married to a porter.

Obama set to name Chicago site — birthplace of black union — as a national monument

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