Railroads in the African American experience : a photographic journey / Theodore Kornweibel, Jr.
Kornweibel, Theodore.
2010
HD8039.R12 K67 2010 (Mapit)
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Title Railroads in the African American experience : a photographic journey / Theodore Kornweibel, Jr.
Author Kornweibel, Theodore.
ISBN 9780801891625 (alk. paper)
0801891620 (alk. paper)
Imprint Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2010.
Language English
Description xxii, 557 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Call Number HD8039.R12 K67 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 331.6/396073
Summary "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."--P. 2 of cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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1. "Negroes will do more work" : slavery and the dawn of Southern railroading
2. "Wasn't no equipment - it was manual labor" : construction and track laborers
3. "With his strong arm and a shovel" : African American locomotive firemen
4. "Wary feet, an alert mind, and chilled nerves" : brakemen and switchmen
5. "The world's most perfect servant" : pullman porters
6. "Capable of working in any fine restaurant" : dining-car cooks and waiters
7. "Farewell - we're good and gone" : railroads and black migration
8. "Represent the best in colored" : train porters, porter-brakemen, railroad ferry and steamship porters, and RPO clerks
9. "Not at all proper for women" : female railroaders
10. "Nobody ride but de chocolate to de bone" : Jim Crow segregation
11. "A little black train a-comin'" : railroad imagery in African American music
12. "Too d
- much for a negro to have" : in the shops, freight houses, and offices
13. "Marry a railroad man" : the communal life of black railroaders
14. "A gracious and obliging gentleman" : red caps and other station personnel
15. "I pick up my life and take it on the train" : representations of railroads in art and literature
16. "He knows his place" : railroads and racism.

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