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Rising from the Rails : Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class
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Rising from the Rails : Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class Paperback - 2005

by Tye, Larry

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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.

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  • Title Rising from the Rails : Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class
  • Author Tye, Larry
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Holt & Company, Henry, New York
  • Date 2005-06-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 940023-6
  • ISBN 9780805078503 / 0805078509
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 1 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects African Americans - Social conditions, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003067573
  • Dewey Decimal Code 331.88

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HE WAS A black man in a white jacket and sable hat.

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  • Ingram Advance, 06/01/2005, Page 121
  • New York Times, 07/24/2005, Page 24

About the author

LARRY TYE has been an award-winning journalist at The Boston Globe and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He now runs a Boston-based training program for medical journalists. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Satchel, as well as Bobby Kennedy, Superman, The Father of Spin, Home Lands, Rising from the Rails, and co-author, with Kitty Dukakis, of Shock. He lives in Massachusetts.

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