Those Pullman blues

Those Pullman Blues, the first oral history centering on the unique experiences of black porters and railroad attendants during the railway's heyday, chronicles their stories. By turns dramatic, inspiring, comic, and heartwrenching, the first-person accounts document both the glamour of the railroad era and the bitter realities of being a black worker on a white railroad. Arguing that these workers' experiences have largely been neglected in the literature and can help us understand a century of racial prejudice and stereotyping, the study's compiler, David D. Perata, gracefully interweaves…