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02577cam a22003978a 4500 001 0E912B74253811DF9B7CADF9A7D7520A 003 SILO 005 20181009010727 008 081212s2009 mdu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2008052305 020 $a 0801891620 (hardcover : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780801891625 (hardcover : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)283802725 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d YDXCP $d IOW $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HD8039.R12 $b K67 2009 082 00 $a 331.6/396073 $2 22 100 1 $a Kornweibel, Theodore. 245 1 $a Railroads in the African American experience : $b a photographic journey / $c Theodore Kornweibel, Jr. 260 $a Baltimore : $b Johns Hopkins University Press, $c c2009. 263 $a 1001 300 $a p. cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a "Negroes will do more work" : slavery and the dawn of Southern railroading -- "A steel driving man" : construction and track laborers -- "With his strong arm and a shovel" : African American locomotive firemen -- "A lesson to all nigger brakemen" : black trainmen fight for survival -- "The world's most perfect servant" : the pullman porters' struggle for dignity -- "To represent the best in colored" : train porters, porter-brakemen, railroad ferry, and steamship porters, and RPO clerks -- "Capable of working in any fine restaurant" : dining car cooks and waiters -- "A gracious and obliging gentleman" : red caps and other station personnel -- "Too d--- much for a negro to have" : in the shops, freight houses, and offices -- "Not at all proper for women" : black female railroaders -- "One big happy family" : the communal life of black railroaders -- "Nobody ride but de chocolate to de bone" : Jim Crow segregation -- Farewell : "we're good and gone" : the railroads and black migration -- "A little black train a-comin'" : railroads in African American music -- "I pick up my life and take it on the train" : railroads in black art and literature -- "He knows his place" : railroads and race. 650 0 $a Railroads $z United States $x Employees. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Employment. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Segregation. 941 $a 6 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20240724065206.0 952 $l DPPE403 $d 20240611011521.0 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214024850.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230804011849.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20110115010741.0 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20101106040649.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0E912B74253811DF9B7CADF9A7D7520A 994 $a 02 $b IOWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search