LEADER 00000cam a2200361 a 4500
001 306428504
003 UkMaC
005 20110215134952.0
008 081212s2010 mdua b 001 0 eng
020 9780801891625 (cased)
020 0801891620 (cased)
035 (Uk)015555788
040 DLC|cDLC|dUk
050 4 HD 8039 R12 K8
100 1 Kornweibel, Theodore,|eauthor.
245 10 Railroads in the African American experience :|ba
photographic journey /|cTheodore Kornweibel, Jr.
260 Baltimore :|bJohns Hopkins University Press,|cc2010.
300 xxii, 557 p. :|bill. (some col.) ;|c25 cm.
336 text|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|2rdamedia
338 volume|2rdacarrier
505 0 "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.
650 0 Railroads|zUnited States|xEmployees.
650 0 African Americans|xEmployment.
650 0 African Americans|xSegregation.
