'If you think about the cultural narratives we tell about the U.S., the railroad is pivotal to the stories we like to say about the United States, but we don't normally usually include the narratives or the experiences of Black women.'
A number of African American women travelled the country and took on challenging work during the difficult Jim Crow era.
But Thaggert, a professor of African American literature at the State University of New York-Buffalo, dug deep into the Newberry's archives and discovered the Chicago-based company also employed Black women as maids on the trains."That was the question that animated my research," she said."And there is a photo that opens up the exhibit. We see a single individual Black woman surrounded by five Pullman porters.
"She wrote a letter to the Chicago division explaining how a white conductor was being verbally abusive and harassing her," Thaggert said.
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