Descript |
xxii, 557 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. |
Content |
text |
Media |
unmediated |
Carrier |
volume |
Contents |
"Negroes will do more work" : slavery and the dawn of Southern railroading -- "A steel driving man" : construction and track laborers -- "With his strong arm and a shovel" : African American locomotive firemen -- "A lesson to all nigger brakemen" : black trainmen fight for survival -- "The world's most perfect servant" : the pullman porters' struggle for dignity -- "To represent the best in colored" : train porters, porter-brakemen, railroad ferry, and steamship porters, and RPO clerks -- "Capable of working in any fine restaurant" : dining car cooks and waiters -- "A gracious and obliging gentleman" : red caps and other station personnel -- "Too d--- much for a negro to have" : in the shops, freight houses, and offices -- "Not at all proper for women" : black female railroaders -- "One big happy family" : the communal life of black railroaders -- "Nobody ride but de chocolate to de bone" : Jim Crow segregation -- Farewell : "we're good and gone" : the railroads and black migration -- "A little black train a-comin'" : railroads in African American music -- "I pick up my life and take it on the train" : railroads in black art and literature -- "He knows his place" : railroads and race. |
ISBN |
9780801891625 (cased) |
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0801891620 (cased) |
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