Rising From The Rails
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Rising From The Rails
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Author : Larry Tye
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2005-06-01
Rising From The Rails written by Larry Tye and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-01 with History categories.
An engaging social history that reveals the critical role Pullman porters played in the struggle for African American civil rights. George Pullman began recruiting Southern blacks as porters in his luxurious new sleeping cars just as the Civil War was ending, and the offer of a steady job and the chance to see the world proved irresistible. Scores of former slaves signed up to serve as maid and waiter, concierge, nanny, and occasionally doctor and undertaker to cars full of well-heeled white passengers, making the Pullman Company the largest employer of African Americans in the country by the early 1900s. Drawing on extensive interviews with dozens of porters and their descendants, Larry Tye reconstructs the world of the Pullman porter and the vital cultural, political, and economic roles he played as forerunner of the modern black middle class. Rising from the Rails is a riveting look at this missing chapter of American history. Praise for Rising from the Rails Named a Recommended Book by The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Seattle Times “A valuable window into a long-underreported dimension of African American history.” —Newsday “A highly readable business history at one end and labor history at the other. . . . Tye shows what whites never saw—the grinding, often humiliating, realities of the job and the rippling effect of steady employment in the upward mobility of the porters’ children and grandchildren.” —Publishers Weekly
Pullman Porters And The Rise Of Protest Politics In Black America 1925 1945
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Author : Beth Tompkins Bates
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2003-01-14
Pullman Porters And The Rise Of Protest Politics In Black America 1925 1945 written by Beth Tompkins Bates and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-14 with Social Science categories.
Between World War I and World War II, African Americans' quest for civil rights took on a more aggressive character as a new group of black activists challenged the politics of civility traditionally embraced by old-guard leaders in favor of a more forceful protest strategy. Beth Tompkins Bates traces the rise of this new protest politics--which was grounded in making demands and backing them up with collective action--by focusing on the struggle of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) to form a union in Chicago, headquarters of the Pullman Company. Bates shows how the BSCP overcame initial opposition from most of Chicago's black leaders by linking its union message with the broader social movement for racial equality. As members of BSCP protest networks mobilized the black community around the quest for manhood rights and economic freedom, they broke down resistance to organized labor even as they expanded the boundaries of citizenship to include equal economic opportunity. By the mid-1930s, BSCP protest networks gained platforms at the national level, fusing Brotherhood activities first with those of the National Negro Congress and later with the March on Washington Movement. Lessons learned during this era guided the next generation of activists, who carried the black freedom struggle forward after World War II.
The Pullman Porters And West Oakland
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Author : Thomas Tramble
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2007
The Pullman Porters And West Oakland written by Thomas Tramble and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
A hub of transportation and industry since the mid-19th century, West Oakland is today a vital commercial conduit and an inimitably distinct and diverse community within the Greater Oakland metropolitan area. The catalyst that transformed this neighborhood from a transcontinental rail terminal into a true settlement was the arrival of the railroad porters, employed by the Pullman Palace Car Company as early as 1867. After years of struggling in labor battles and negotiations, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Union became the first African Americanaled union to sign a contract with a large American company. The unionas West Coast headquarters were established at Fifth and Wood Streets in West Oakland. Soon families, benevolent societies, and churches followed, and a true community came into being.
Those Pullman Blues
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Author : David D. Perata
language : en
Publisher: Madison Books
Release Date : 1999
Those Pullman Blues written by David D. Perata and has been published by Madison Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The first oral history centering on the unique experiences of black porters and railroad attendants during the railway's heyday is by turns dramatic, inspiring, comic, and heart wrenching. First-person accounts document both the glamour of the railroad era and the bitter realities of being a black worker on a white railroad. 35 photos.
Train
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Author : Tom Zoellner
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2014-01-30
Train written by Tom Zoellner and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-30 with Transportation categories.
An epic and revelatory narrative of the most important transportation technology of the modern world In his wide-ranging and entertaining new book, Tom Zoellner—coauthor of the New York Times–bestselling An Ordinary Man—travels the globe to tell the story of the sociological and economic impact of the railway technology that transformed the world—and could very well change it again. From the frigid trans-Siberian railroad to the antiquated Indian Railways to the Japanese-style bullet trains, Zoellner offers a stirring story of this most indispensable form of travel. A masterful narrative history, Train also explores the sleek elegance of railroads and their hypnotizing rhythms, and explains how locomotives became living symbols of sex, death, power, and romance.
Off The Rails
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Author : Rudy Sarzo
language : en
Publisher: Too Smart Publications
Release Date : 2008
Off The Rails written by Rudy Sarzo and has been published by Too Smart Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Guitarists categories.
"Among the many reasons why I took upon myself the task of writing Off the Rails was to clear a lot of misinformation and bogus theories that circulate on the Internet regarding Randy Rhoads' ife and death. Believe me, it was not easy chronicling all of the daily events that happened on and off the road. Fortunately, Ihad kept a journal of our travels so I had accurate details ..."--P [4] of cover.
The Story Of Crossrail
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Author : Christian Wolmar
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-11-01
The Story Of Crossrail written by Christian Wolmar and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-01 with Transportation categories.
The story of an engineering marvel of the twenty-first century, from Britain's bestselling railway writer. Crossrail, first conceived just after the Second World War in the era of Attlee and Churchill, has cost more than £15bn and is expected to serve 200 million passengers annually. From Reading and Heathrow in the west, the Elizabeth line will extend to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east, including 42 kilometres of new tunnels dug under central London. The author sets out the complex and highly political reasons for Crossrail's lengthy gestation, tracing the troubled progress of the concept from the rejection of the first Crossrail bill in the 1990s through the tortuous parliamentary processes that led to the passing of the Crossrail Act of 2008. He also recounts in detail the construction of this astonishing new railway, describing how immense tunnel-boring machines cut through a subterranean world of rock and mud with unparalleled accuracy that ensured none of the buildings overhead were affected. A shrewdly incisive observer of postwar transport policy, Wolmar pays due credit to the remarkable achievement of Crossrail, while analysing in clear-eyed fashion the many setbacks it encountered en route to completion. With a new afterword to mark the opening of Crossrail in 2022.
Kronos Rising
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Author : Max Hawthorne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-05-18
Kronos Rising written by Max Hawthorne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-18 with categories.
Hardcover edition of Kronos Rising, book one in the KR paleo-fiction/marine terror series and Prehistoric Times Magazine's 2014 Book of the Year.
The Double V Campaign
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Author : Lea Lyon
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2024-02-20
The Double V Campaign written by Lea Lyon and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-20 with History categories.
This book tells the rousing story of the Double V campaign, started during World War II to encourage Black Americans to fight two wars for democracy at once: one overseas and the other at home. It reveals to young adults how the campaign gave voice to Black communities and helped spawn the civil rights movement of the following decades.