Railroads in the African American experience : a photographic journey

Author/Creator:

Kornweibel, Theodore

Publication/Creation:

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010

Resource Type:

Book

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Full Title:

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

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Railroads--United States--Employees
African Americans--Employment
African Americans--Segregation

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

"Negroes will do more work" : slavery and the dawn of Southern railroading -- "Wasn't no equipment-- 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.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

xxii, 557 p. : ill. ; 27 cm

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

990025555060302486

ISBN:

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

OCLC Number:

283802725

Barcode:

010002464396