Railroads in the African American experience
By: Theodore Kornweibel, Jr.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801891625
Subjects: Railroads -- United States -- Employees; African Americans -- Employment; African Americans -- Segregation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Negroes will do more work" : slavery and the dawn of Southern railroading; title: "A steel driving man" : construction and track laborers; title: "With his strong arm and a shovel" : African American locomotive firemen; title: "A lesson to all nigger brakemen" : black trainmen fight for survival; title: "The world's most perfect servant" : the pullman porters' struggle for dignity; title: "To represent the best in colored" : train porters, porter-brakemen, railroad ferry, and steamship porters, and RPO clerks; title: "Capable of working in any fine restaurant" : dining car cooks and waiters; title: "A gracious and obliging gentleman" : red caps and other station personnel; title: "Too d; title: - much for a negro to have" : in the shops, freight houses, and offices; title: "Not at all proper for women" : black female railroaders; title: "One big happy family" : the communal life of black railroaders; title: "Nobody ride but de chocolate to de bone" : Jim Crow segregation; title: Farewell : "we're good and gone" : the railroads and black migration; title: "A little black train a-comin'" : railroads in African American music; title: "I pick up my life and take it on the train" : railroads in black art and literature; title: "He knows his place" : railroads and race.