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July Book Club - Rising from the Rails by Larry Tye

Rising from the Rails coverThe July book will be Rising From The Rails: Pullman Porters And The Making Of The Black Middle Class by Larry Tye. Meet at 2000 Malvern Rd at 7:00 PM on July 25, 2018 for a great discussion.

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 Americans in the country by the 1920s.

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.

July 25th, 2018 7:00 PM   through   12:00 AM
2000 Malvern Rd
Upper Arlington, OH 43221
UNITED STATES

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