Railroads in the African American experience : a photographic journey
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
c2010.
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Table of 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.