Author: United States
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Railroad Safety Programs
Author: United States
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Colored Travelers
Author: Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469628589
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Americans have long regarded the freedom of travel a central tenet of citizenship. Yet, in the United States, freedom of movement has historically been a right reserved for whites. In this book, Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor shows that African Americans fought obstructions to their mobility over 100 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus. These were "colored travelers," activists who relied on steamships, stagecoaches, and railroads to expand their networks and to fight slavery and racism. They refused to ride in "Jim Crow" railroad cars, fought for the right to hold a U.S. passport (and citizenship), and during their transatlantic voyages, demonstrated their radical abolitionism. By focusing on the myriad strategies of black protest, including the assertions of gendered freedom and citizenship, this book tells the story of how the basic act of traveling emerged as a front line in the battle for African American equal rights before the Civil War. Drawing on exhaustive research from U.S. and British newspapers, journals, narratives, and letters, as well as firsthand accounts of such figures as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and William Wells Brown, Pryor illustrates how, in the quest for citizenship, colored travelers constructed ideas about respectability and challenged racist ideologies that made black mobility a crime.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469628589
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Americans have long regarded the freedom of travel a central tenet of citizenship. Yet, in the United States, freedom of movement has historically been a right reserved for whites. In this book, Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor shows that African Americans fought obstructions to their mobility over 100 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus. These were "colored travelers," activists who relied on steamships, stagecoaches, and railroads to expand their networks and to fight slavery and racism. They refused to ride in "Jim Crow" railroad cars, fought for the right to hold a U.S. passport (and citizenship), and during their transatlantic voyages, demonstrated their radical abolitionism. By focusing on the myriad strategies of black protest, including the assertions of gendered freedom and citizenship, this book tells the story of how the basic act of traveling emerged as a front line in the battle for African American equal rights before the Civil War. Drawing on exhaustive research from U.S. and British newspapers, journals, narratives, and letters, as well as firsthand accounts of such figures as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and William Wells Brown, Pryor illustrates how, in the quest for citizenship, colored travelers constructed ideas about respectability and challenged racist ideologies that made black mobility a crime.
Three Studies in Railroading
Author: Union Pacific Railway Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Rail Safety
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Activities and Transportation Subcommittee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Regulation of Railway Rates
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce
Publisher:
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Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Interstate commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
Book Description
A Treatise on the Law of Railroads
Author: Wood
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Government Rates on Railroads
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce
Publisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1466
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1466
Book Description
Report of the Commissioner of Railroads
Author: United States Commissioner of Railroads
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Transportation of Hazardous Materials by Rail
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Activities and Transportation Subcommittee
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Category : Hazardous substances
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hazardous substances
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Argument ... for the petitioners for the incorporation of the Citizens' Horse Railroad Co. [of Boston, Mass.] ... March 4, 1863. Phonographic report by J. M. W. Yerrington
Author: Amos B. MERRILL
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description