“'America’s valued progress narrative, a story so often symbolized by the railroad,' is challenged by the experience of Black women, MThaggert wound up writing.' | DeannaIsaacs
. And so much depends on the perspective of the storyteller.
Miriam Thaggert has been thinking about this sort of thing since a visit to the Newberry Library’s vastin 2014 sent her on a long detour through 19th- and early 20th-century American history. Thaggert, now a literature professor at SUNY Buffalo, had been skimming through the employee records of the famous all-male, all-Black Pullman Company porters for a book she was planning, when she stumbled on something she didn’t expect: an application from a woman.
“One of the things I’m hoping to get people to think about is the national narrative we tell about the railroad,” Thaggert says.
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