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Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters V. Pullman Company
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Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Pages : 100
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Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: Records of the BSCP relations with the Pullman Company, 1925-1968 (10 reels)
Author: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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The Pullman Porter
Author: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
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Category : Porters
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Category : Porters
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Author: Brailsford Reese Brazeal
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters V. Pullman Company
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Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Pages : 52
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Miles V. Pullman Company
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Pages : 28
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Pages : 28
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Agreement Between the Pullman Company and Porters, Attendants, Maids and Bus Boys in the Service of the Pullman Company in the United States of America and Canada
Author: Pullman Company
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Category : Collective labor agreements
Languages : en
Pages : 39
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Category : Collective labor agreements
Languages : en
Pages : 39
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Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
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Category : Labor unions
Languages : en
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A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: Records of the BSCP relations with the Pullman Company, 1925-1968
Author: William Hamilton Harris
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
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Rising from the Rails
Author: Larry Tye
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466818751
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
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"A valuable window into a long-underreported dimension of African American history."—Newsday 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 cars full of white passengers, making the Pullman Company the largest employer of African American men in the country by the 1920s. In the world of the Pullman sleeping car, where whites and blacks lived in close proximity, porters developed a unique culture marked by idiosyncratic language, railroad lore, and shared experience. They called difficult passengers "Mister Charlie"; exchanged stories about Daddy Jim, the legendary first Pullman porter; and learned to distinguish generous tippers such as Humphrey Bogart from skinflints like Babe Ruth. At the same time, they played important social, political, and economic roles, carrying jazz and blues to outlying areas, forming America's first black trade union, and acting as forerunners of the modern black middle class by virtue of their social position and income. Drawing on extensive interviews with dozens of porters and their descendants, Larry Tye reconstructs the complicated world of the Pullman porter and the vital cultural, political, and economic roles they played as forerunners of the modern black middle class. Rising from the Rails provides a lively and enlightening look at this important social phenomenon. • Named a Recommended Book by The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Seattle Times
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466818751
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
"A valuable window into a long-underreported dimension of African American history."—Newsday 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 cars full of white passengers, making the Pullman Company the largest employer of African American men in the country by the 1920s. In the world of the Pullman sleeping car, where whites and blacks lived in close proximity, porters developed a unique culture marked by idiosyncratic language, railroad lore, and shared experience. They called difficult passengers "Mister Charlie"; exchanged stories about Daddy Jim, the legendary first Pullman porter; and learned to distinguish generous tippers such as Humphrey Bogart from skinflints like Babe Ruth. At the same time, they played important social, political, and economic roles, carrying jazz and blues to outlying areas, forming America's first black trade union, and acting as forerunners of the modern black middle class by virtue of their social position and income. Drawing on extensive interviews with dozens of porters and their descendants, Larry Tye reconstructs the complicated world of the Pullman porter and the vital cultural, political, and economic roles they played as forerunners of the modern black middle class. Rising from the Rails provides a lively and enlightening look at this important social phenomenon. • Named a Recommended Book by The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Seattle Times