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

Tye, Larry

 
9780805070750: Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class

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A fascinating social history describes how, in the 1920s, the largest employer of African-American men in the country became the Pullman company, which hired former slaves as sleeping car porters, creating a unique culture of language, lore, and legend that blazed a path for a black middle class. 20,000 first printing.

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Larry Tye was a longtime journalist for the The Boston Globe, winning numerous awards for his work. A former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, he is the author of The Father of Spin (0-8050-6789-2) and Home Lands (0-8050-6591-1). He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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9780805078503: Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters And The Making Of The Black Middle Class

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ISBN 10:  0805078509 ISBN 13:  9780805078503
Casa editrice: Picador Paper, 2005
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