Railroads in the African American experience : a photographic journey Theodore Kornweibel, Jr

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kornweibel, Theodore.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Railroads--United States--Employees.

Railroads.

African Americans--Employment.

African Americans.

African Americans--Segregation.

Physical Description:

xxii, 557 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2010.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [511]-[546]) and index.

ISBN:

9780801891625 (alk. paper)

0801891620 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

283802725