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Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad
Author
Miriam Thaggert
Content
x + 188 pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Urbana: University of Illinois Press
Description
Covers 1860–1925 and groups including food vendors, intellectuals, maids on Pullman trains, and middle-class women who sued to ride in first class.
Main subject
History
Sociology and Social Issues
ISBN
9780252044526 (cloth); 9780252086595 (pap.); 9780252053528 (ebook)
Citation
Thaggert, Miriam.
Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022. Sylvia. Accessed April 26, 2024. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL2086.
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07-25-2022
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