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Book Touring Pullman

Download or read book Touring Pullman written by William Adelman and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pullman Tours

Download or read book Pullman Tours written by Historic Pullman Foundation and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Automotive Industries

Download or read book Automotive Industries written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Automobile

Download or read book The Automobile written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pullman tour

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  • Author : William Adelman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1972
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Pullman tour written by William Adelman and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings

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  • Author : National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research Board. Annual Meeting
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1926
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 452 pages

Download or read book Proceedings written by National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research Board. Annual Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report for 1922 includes a summarized account of preliminary and organization meetings in 1919,1920 and 1921.

Book Automobile Journal

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1913
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1474 pages

Download or read book Automobile Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Automobile Journal

Download or read book The Automobile Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rising from the Rails

    Book Details:
  • Author : Larry Tye
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2005-06-01
  • ISBN : 1466818751
  • Pages : 481 pages

Download or read book Rising from the Rails written by Larry Tye and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A valuable window into a long-underreported dimension of African American history."—Newsday An engaging social history that reveals the critical role Pullman porters played in the struggle for African American civil rights When George Pullman began recruiting Southern blacks as porters in his luxurious new sleeping cars, the former slaves suffering under Jim Crow laws found his offer of a steady job and worldly experience irresistible. They quickly signed up to serve as maid, waiter, concierge, nanny, and occasionally doctor and undertaker to cars full of white passengers, making the Pullman Company the largest employer of African American men in the country by the 1920s. In the world of the Pullman sleeping car, where whites and blacks lived in close proximity, porters developed a unique culture marked by idiosyncratic language, railroad lore, and shared experience. They called difficult passengers "Mister Charlie"; exchanged stories about Daddy Jim, the legendary first Pullman porter; and learned to distinguish generous tippers such as Humphrey Bogart from skinflints like Babe Ruth. At the same time, they played important social, political, and economic roles, carrying jazz and blues to outlying areas, forming America's first black trade union, and acting as forerunners of the modern black middle class by virtue of their social position and income. Drawing on extensive interviews with dozens of porters and their descendants, Larry 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. Rising from the Rails provides a lively and enlightening look at this important social phenomenon. • Named a Recommended Book by The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Seattle Times

Book Travel

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  • Release : 1905
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 178 pages

Download or read book Travel written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Travel Magazine

Download or read book Travel Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nine Thousand Miles on a Pullman Train

Download or read book Nine Thousand Miles on a Pullman Train written by Milton M. Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tour was arranged by the Tourist Bureau of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and the book published to promote its program of personally conducted luxury tours.

Book Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America  1925 1945

Download or read book Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America 1925 1945 written by Beth Tompkins Bates and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-01-14 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between World War I and World War II, African Americans' quest for civil rights took on a more aggressive character as a new group of black activists challenged the politics of civility traditionally embraced by old-guard leaders in favor of a more forceful protest strategy. Beth Tompkins Bates traces the rise of this new protest politics--which was grounded in making demands and backing them up with collective action--by focusing on the struggle of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) to form a union in Chicago, headquarters of the Pullman Company. Bates shows how the BSCP overcame initial opposition from most of Chicago's black leaders by linking its union message with the broader social movement for racial equality. As members of BSCP protest networks mobilized the black community around the quest for manhood rights and economic freedom, they broke down resistance to organized labor even as they expanded the boundaries of citizenship to include equal economic opportunity. By the mid-1930s, BSCP protest networks gained platforms at the national level, fusing Brotherhood activities first with those of the National Negro Congress and later with the March on Washington Movement. Lessons learned during this era guided the next generation of activists, who carried the black freedom struggle forward after World War II.

Book Country Life

Download or read book Country Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Automobiles of the Brass Era

Download or read book American Automobiles of the Brass Era written by Robert D. Dluhy and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Abbott-Detroit to Zip, this unique reference book documents American gasoline-powered automobiles manufactured for the model years 1906 through 1915, the Brass Era. In these explosive early years of automotive history, a vast number of manufacturers--most of which failed within two years--produced a range of cars whose sheer diversity is unmatched in later times. The short corporate lifespans and constant change throughout the industry left a fragmented historical record, with data about specific models scarce and scattered in later sources. Here the basic facts of 4,000+ cars, painstakingly researched in all available period sources, are collected and trends of the era are analyzed.

Book On Location

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  • Author : D. Fairchild Ruggles
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2011-11-19
  • ISBN : 1461411084
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book On Location written by D. Fairchild Ruggles and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-19 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Location: Heritage Cities and Sites merges the material and the social perspectives of preservation and historical interpretation in urban landscapes. The essays in this volume focus on the social life of historic cities and large-scale sites. They examine the ways that cities are dynamically changing as they are made and then remade by the people who inhabit or simply visit them, and concentrate on change, pluralism, and fragmentation. The strength of On Location: Heritage Cities and Sites is its comparative approach to both theory and grounded research. It includes an introductory essay that explains the heritage principle under study--the challenges of scale in the environment of a city or large complex--and its development as seen in the policy instruments of ICOMOS, UNESCO, and other major heritage organizations.The combination of wide-ranging case studies (including essays on North America, South America, Central America, the Middle East, and Europe) and the theoretical background make this volume an invaluable asset for researchers in archaeology, urban studies, art and architecture, cultural heritage, public policy, and tourism.

Book Automobile Trade Journal

Download or read book Automobile Trade Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: