Rising from the rails: Pullman porters and the making of the black middle class

Publication

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Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

Rising from the rails: Pullman porters and the making of the black middle class

Entry/Object ID

Library.997

Description

viii, 314 pages ; 24 cm Rising from the rails: Pullman porters and the making of the black middle class by Larry Tye. Jacksonville information on Asa Philip Randolph: 116-118. He is interwoven throughout the rest of the book. Describes how the Pullman Company hired former slaves as sleeping car porters and became the largest employer of African American men in the country by the 1920s, creating a unique culture that blazed a path for a black middle class.

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Randolph, A. Philip -- (Asa Philip) -- 1889-1979 ., Pullman porters -- United States -- History., Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters -- History., African Americans -- Social conditions., Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters., Pullman porters., Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Train, Chair Car, Coach Porters and Attendants of America.

Publication Details

Author

Tye, Larry

Edition

1st ed.

Publisher

Henry Hold and Company, LLC

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

New York, NY

Call No.

HD 8039 .R362 U68 2004

ISBN

0805070753