Pullman Porters and the Rise of  Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945 (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 5, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780807826140
Subjects: Black studies; Civil rights & citizenship; Political activism; Social history; Trade unions; Work & labour; United States; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Second World War, 1939-1945; History; Discrimination In Employment; Political activity; Business & Economics; Politics / Current Events; Minority Studies - Race Relations; Multicultural Nonfiction; Illinois; USA; Labor; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Labor & Industrial Relations - Unions; Political Science / Civil Rights; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Pullman porters; African American labor union m; African American labor union members; Labor Unions
First sentence: Shortly after the Civil War, when George Mortimer Pullman revolutionized intercity travel with his Pullman sleeping cars, he consciously recruited recently freed slaves for the position of porter.