Details

Subject(s)

• Pullman porters—United States—History [Browse]
• Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters—History [Browse]
• African Americans—Social conditions [Browse]

Related name

• Payne, Allison, 1964- [Browse]
• Osborne, Brad [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Video recordings [Browse]

Related work(s)

Tye, Larry. Rising from the rails. [Browse]

Summary note

A documentary that chronicles the legacy of the Pullman Porters, generations of African American men who served as caretakers to wealthy white passengers on luxury trains that traversed the nation during the golden age of rail. -- Container.

Notes

• Based on the book Rising from the rails : Pullman porters and the making of the Black middle class by Larry Tye.
• Special features: Behind-the-scenes feature ; Extended interviews with porters and Rails author Larry Tye ; Rare Pullman training filmstrips with sound ; Pullman car slideshow ; Archival railroad films ; Discussion of Pullman memorabilia.

Creation/​Production credits

Editor, Brad Osborne ; director of photography, Taylor Garvin

System details

DVD; region 1 encoding; widescreen presentation.

Participant(s)/​Performer(s)

Narrator, Allison Payne.

Contents

• Out of bondage, all aboard
• Rough rides, intimate encounters
• My name's not George
• Saint Philip and the battle for brotherhood
• Behind the mask
• Train to freedom
• A legacy that lasts.

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OCLC

64562003

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