Middle class African Americans

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Rising from the rails: Pullman porters and the making of the Black middl…

by Tye, Larry

0 Type: Book

From the 1860s, when George Pullman first hired African-Americans to work on his luxury sleeping cars, until the mid-twentieth century, when the Pullman Company ended its sleeper service, the Pullman porter held one of the best jobs in the black community and one of the worst on…

RF

Rising from the rails: Pullman porters and the making of the Black middl…

by Tye, Larry

0 Type: Book

"From the 1860s, when George Pullman first hired African-Americans to work on his luxury sleeping cars, until the mid-twentieth century, when the Pullman Company ended its sleeper service, the Pullman porter held one of the best jobs in the black community and one of the worst o…