Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class - Larry Tye - Livros - Henry Holt and Co. - 9780805078503 - 1 de junho de 2005

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

Larry Tye

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"A lively and engaging chronicle that adds yet another dimension to the historical record."-The Boston Globe

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 irresistable. 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 Americans in the country by the 1920s.

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.

352 pages

Mídia	Livros Paperback Book (Livro de capa flexível e brochura)
Lançado	1 de junho de 2005
ISBN13	9780805078503
Editoras	Henry Holt and Co.
Páginas	352
Dimensões	138 × 209 × 23 mm · 340 g
Idioma	Inglês