MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2008052305
003 DLC
005 20100310124313.0
008 081212s2010 mdua b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aHD8039.R12$bK67 2010
082 00 $a331.6/396073$222
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.
650 0 $aRailroads$zUnited States$xEmployees.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xEmployment.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xSegregation.