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Subject(s)

• Railroads—United States—Employees [Browse]
• African Americans—Employment [Browse]
• African Americans—Segregation [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• "Negroes will do more work" : slavery and the dawn of Southern railroading
• "Wasn't no equpiment-it was manual labor" : construction and track laborers
• "With his strong arm and a shovel" : locomotive firemen and engineers
• "Wary feet, an alert mind, and chilled nerves" : brakemen and switchmen
• "The world's most perfect servant" : Pullman porters
• "Capable of working in any fine restaurant" : dining-car cooks and waiters
• "Farewell-we're good and gone" : railroads and black migration
• "Represent the best in colored" : train porters, porter-brakemen, railroad ferry and steamship porters, and RPO clerks
• "Not all proper for women" : female railroaders
• "Nobody ride but de chocolate to de bone" : Jim Crow segregation
• "Little black train a-comin'" : railroad imagery in African American music
• "Too d--- much for a Negro to have" : in the shops, freight houses, and offices
• "Marry a railroad man" : the communal life of black railroaders
• "A gracious and obliging gentleman" : red caps and other station personnel
• "I pick up my life and take it on the train" : representations of railroads in art and literature
• "He knows his place" : railroads and racism.

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ISBN

• 9780801891625 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0801891620 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2008052305

OCLC

283802725

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