Rising from the Rails
Subtitle: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Published: July 6, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780805070750
Subjects: Labor & Industrial Relations - Unions; Social conditions; History: American; Black American Sociology; Labor Unions; United States; Sociology; Pullman porters; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; United States - 20th Century; History / General; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Po; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; United States - General; African Americans; History
First sentence: HE WAS A black man in a white jacket and sable hat.