Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class (Repost)
Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class By Larry Tye
2005 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0805078509 | EPUB + MOBI | 2 MB + 2 MB
2005 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0805078509 | EPUB + MOBI | 2 MB + 2 MB
Rising from the Rails Drawing on extensive interviews with dozens of porters and their descendants, Tye reconstructs the complicated world of the Pullman porter and the vital cultural, political, and economic roles they played as forerunners of the modern black middle class.