Railroads in the African American experience : a photographic journey - Kornweibel, Theodore (Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010)
"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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Railroads -- United States -- Employees; African Americans -- Employment; African Americans -- Segregation