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100 1 $aKornweibel, Theodore.
245 10 $aRailroads in the African American experience :$ba photographic journey /$cTheodore Kornweibel, Jr.
260 $aBaltimore :$bJohns Hopkins University Press,$cc2010.
300 $axxii, 557 p. :$bill. (some col.) ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [511]-[546]) and index.
505 0 $a"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.
520 $a"For over a century, railroading provided the most important industrial occupation for blacks. Brakemen, firemen, porters, chefs, mechanics, laborers - African American men and women have been essential to the daily operation and success of American railroads. The connections between railroads and African Americans extend well beyond employment. Civil rights protests beginning in the late 19th century challenged railroad segregation and job discrimination; the major waves of black migration to the North depended almost entirely on railroads; and railroad themes and imagery penetrated deep into black art, literature, drama, folklore, and music."--Page 2 of cover.
650 0 $aRailroads$zUnited States$xEmployees.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xEmployment.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xSegregation.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aKornweibel, Theodore.$tRailroads in the African American experience.$dBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2010$w(OCoLC)761397509
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