Description: African American Railroad Workers of Roanoke, Virginia, American Heritage, Paper Roanoke, Virginia, is one of America's great historic railroad centers. The Norfolk & Western Railway Company, now the Norfolk Southern Corporation, has been in Roanoke for over a century. Since the company has employed many of the city's African Americans, the two histories are intertwined. The lives of Roanoke's black railroad workers span the generations from Jim Crow segregation to the civil rights era to today's diverse corporate workforce. Older generations toiled through labor-intensive jobs such as janitors and track laborers, paving the way for younger African Americans to become engineers, conductors and executives. Join author Sheree Scarborough as she interviews Roanoke's African American railroad workers and chronicles stories that are a powerful testament of personal adversity, struggle and triumph on the rail.
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Location: Columbia, South Carolina
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Brand: Unbranded
MPN: 9781626195042
Book Title: African American Railroad Workers of Roanoke : Oral Histories of the Norfolk and Western
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.3in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Sheree Scarborough, Historical Society of Western Virginia
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, FL, GA, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Railroads / History, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Industries / Transportation
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication Year: 2014
Genre: Transportation, Business & Economics, History, Social Science
Item Weight: 9.6 Oz
Number of Pages: 160 Pages
