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This well-documented study provides a valuable and needed reexamination of a largely underappreciated organization that helped lay the groundwork for the Civil Rights Movement. (Choice)
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As Bates so eloquently demonstrates, the Pullman Porters emerged as a beacon of the black freedom movement. (Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Yo' Mama's DisFunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America)
An indispensable contribution to African American, labor, and political history, this study recasts our understanding of the history of the modern struggle for civil rights. (Eric Arnesen, author of Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality)
This is an excellent piece of scholarship. (Tera W. Hunter, author of To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War)
Bates allows her readers to gain a thorough knowledge of the racial climate in America through her flawlessly adept book that chronicles the politics of race in black America from the New Negro Movement of the Reconstruction era through World War II. (QBR)
As Bates so eloquently demonstrates, the Pullman Porters emerged as a beacon of the black freedom movement. (Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Yo' Mama's DisFunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America)
An indispensable contribution to African American, labor, and political history, this study recasts our understanding of the history of the modern struggle for civil rights. (Eric Arnesen, author of Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality)
This is an excellent piece of scholarship. (Tera W. Hunter, author of To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War)
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Shortly after the Civil War, when George Mortimer Pullman revolutionized intercity travel with his Pullman sleeping cars, he consciously recruited recently freed slaves for the position of porter. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African Americans, New York, World War, Chicago Defender, Walter White, South Side, United States, Communist Party, New Negro, Philip Randolph, George Pullman, Fourteenth Amendment, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Chicago Urban League, New Deal, South Parkway, White House, Abraham Lincoln, Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society, National Negro Congress, Jesse Binga, Reverend Carey, Sojourner Truth, Chicago Whip, Wabash Avenue New!
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Shortly after the Civil War, when George Mortimer Pullman revolutionized intercity travel with his Pullman sleeping cars, he consciously recruited recently freed slaves for the position of porter. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African Americans, New York, World War, Chicago Defender, Walter White, South Side, United States, Communist Party, New Negro, Philip Randolph, George Pullman, Fourteenth Amendment, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Chicago Urban League, New Deal, South Parkway, White House, Abraham Lincoln, Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society, National Negro Congress, Jesse Binga, Reverend Carey, Sojourner Truth, Chicago Whip, Wabash Avenue New!
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- A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait by Jervis Anderson on 16 pages
- The Souls of Black Folk (Modern Library) by W.E.B. Du Bois on 6 pages
- Black Americans in the Roosevelt Era: Liberalism and Race (Twentieth Century America Series) by John B. Kirby on 5 pages
- KEEPING THE FAITH: A. Philip Randolph, Milton P. Webster, and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 1925-37 (Blacks in the New World) by William H. Harris on 5 pages
- Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century (Blacks in the New World) by August Meier on 4 pages
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- Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940-1980 by Jeanne F. Theoharis on page 34, and page 117
- Black Religious Intellectuals: The Fight for Equality from Jim Crow to the 21st Century (Crosscurrents in African American History) by Clarence Taylor in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Black Religious Intellectuals: The Fight for Equality from Jim Crow to the 21st Century (Crosscurrents in African American History) by Clarence Taylor in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940-1980 by Jeanne Theoharis on page 34, and page 117
- The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s (Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures) by David Farber on page 88
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