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

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

Larry Tye

352 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history race reflective slow-paced
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A valuable window into a long-underreported dimension of African American history.--Newsday When George Pullman began recruiting Southern blacks as porters in his luxurious new sleeping cars, the former slaves suffering under Jim Crow laws found h...

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