"Negroes will do more work" : slavery and the dawn of Southern railroading
"A steel driving man" : construction and track laborers
"With his strong arm and a shovel" : African American locomotive firemen
"A lesson to all nigger brakemen" : black trainmen fight for survival
"The world's most perfect servant" : the pullman porters' struggle for dignity
"To represent the best in colored" : train porters, porter-brakemen, railroad ferry, and steamship porters, and RPO clerks
"Capable of working in any fine restaurant" : dining car cooks and waiters
"A gracious and obliging gentleman" : red caps and other station personnel
much for a negro to have" : in the shops, freight houses, and offices
"Not at all proper for women" : black female railroaders
"One big happy family" : the communal life of black railroaders
"Nobody ride but de chocolate to de bone" : Jim Crow segregation
Farewell : "we're good and gone" : the railroads and black migration
"A little black train a-comin'" : railroads in African American music
"I pick up my life and take it on the train" : railroads in black art and literature
"He knows his place" : railroads and race.
