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- Title
Murder on the Kansas City Special? Pullman Porters, Emotions, and the Strange Case of J. H. Wilkins.
- Authors
PEARCE, ROSEMARY
- Abstract
J. H. Wilkins, an African American railroad porter for the Pullman Company, was killed while on duty in April 1930. How he met his death has never been fully determined, but the Pullman Company's investigation file exposes the dangerous and racialized emotional terrain that porters navigated daily on their journeys across the US. By examining Wilkins's death, and the work of Pullman porters more broadly, this article makes the case that white control of black emotions in occupational and public spaces was a significant characteristic of the Jim Crow era, and demands further scholarly attention.
- Subjects
KANSAS City (Kan.); WILKINS, J. H.; PULLMAN Co.; PULLMAN porters; AFRICAN American transport workers; OCCUPATIONAL mortality
- Publication
Journal of American Studies, 2019, Vol 53, Issue 3, p683
- ISSN
0021-8758
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0021875818000476