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Railroads in the African American experience : a photographic journey

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Main Author: Kornweibel, Theodore.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2010.
Subjects and Genres:
Railroads > United States > Employees.
African Americans > Employment.
African Americans > Segregation.
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300 |a xxii, 557 p. :  |b ill. (some col.) ;  |c 25 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [511]-[546]) and index. 
505 0 |a "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. 
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