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

Tye, Larry

 
9780805070750: Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class
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ISBN 10: 0805070753 ISBN 13: 9780805070750
Editorial: Henry Holt & Co, 2004

Sinopsis

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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Editorial
Henry Holt & Co
Año de publicación
2004
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0805070753
ISBN 13 
9780805070750
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
314
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