[PDF.88ae] 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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 | #1299565 in Books |  2004-07-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  10.18 x1.18 x5.90l, | File type: PDF | 336 pages

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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