LEADER 02626pam a2200337 a 4500001 9960657813506421 005 20240819103915.0 008 081212s2010 mdua b 001 0 eng^^ 010 2008052305 020 9780801891625 (hardcover : alk. paper) 020 0801891620 (hardcover : alk. paper) 035 (NjP)6065781-princetondb 035 (OCoLC)ocn283802725 035 |z(NjP)Voyager6065781 035 |z(NjP)Voyager6065781 040 DLC |beng |cDLC |dBTCTA |dYDXCP |dC#P 043 n-us--- 050 00 HD8039.R12 |bK67 2010 082 00 331.6/396073 |222 100 1 Kornweibel, Theodore. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80086629 245 10 Railroads in the African American experience : |ba photographic journey / |cTheodore Kornweibel, Jr. 260 Baltimore : |bJohns Hopkins University Press, |c2010. 300 xxii, 557 p. : |bill. ; |c27 cm. 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 "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. 650 0 Railroads |zUnited States |xEmployees. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003009609 650 0 African Americans |xEmployment. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001951 650 0 African Americans |xSegregation. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001982 902 mnc |bs |6a |7m |dv |f1 |e20100329 904 mnc |ba |hm |cb |e20100329 914 (OCoLC)ocn283802725 |bOCoLC |cmatch |d20221117 |eprocessed |f283802725