African American Railroad Workers of Roanoke: Oral Histories of the Norfolk & Western - Brossura

Scarborough, Sheree

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1626195048 ISBN 13: 9781626195042

Casa editrice: History Pr, 2014

Riassunto

Roanoke, Virginia, is one of America's great historic railroad centers. The Norfolk & Western Railway Company, now the Norfolk Southern Corporation, has been in Roanoke for over a century. Since the company has employed many of the city's African Americans, the two histories are intertwined. The lives of Roanoke's black railroad workers span the generations from Jim Crow segregation to the civil rights era to today's diverse corporate workforce. Older generations toiled through labor-intensive jobs such as janitors and track laborers, paving the way for younger African Americans to become engineers, conductors and executives. Join author Sheree Scarborough as she interviews Roanoke's African American railroad workers and chronicles stories that are a powerful testament of personal adversity, struggle and triumph on the rail.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: History Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1626195048
• ISBN 13: 9781626195042
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 156