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Rising from the rails : Pullman porters and the making of the Black middle class /

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Describes how the Pullman Company hired former slaves as sleeping car porters and became the largest employer of African American men in the country by the 1920s, creating a unique culture that blazed a path for a black middle class.

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Main Author: Tye, Larry (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Henry Holt, 2004.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters > History.
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters > Histoire.
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Train, Chair Car, Coach Porters and Attendants of America
Pullman porters > United States > History.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Préposés aux pullmans > États-Unis > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Conditions sociales.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.
African Americans > Social conditions
Pullman porters
United States
Schlafwagenschaffner
Soziale Situation
Schwärze
USA
Spoorwegpersoneel.
Sociale aspecten.
Zwarten.
Geschichte.
History
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