[PDF.73dn] Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class

Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Strategies for Empowerment|By Purple Dragon|Rising From The Rails tells an important story of the transition of black labor after the Civil War from slavery to freedom. After emancipation, African Americans looked for employment in a variety of venues. With the growth of railroads, George Pullman popularized a new travel experience--the sleeping car. Pullman instituted and comb|From Publishers Weekly|What have the poet Claude McKay, the filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, the explorer Matthew Henson, the musician "Big Bill" Broonzy and college president Benjamin Mays in common? They all worked for the Pullman Company, which until 1969 owned the

An engaging social history that reveals the critical role Pullman porters played in the struggle for African American civil rights

When George Pullman began recruiting Southern blacks as porters in his luxurious new sleeping cars, the former slaves suffering under Jim Crow laws found his offer of a steady job and worldly experience irresistible. They quickly signed up to serve as maid, waiter, concierge, nanny, and occasionally doctor and undertaker to ca...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class   |  Larry Tye. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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