Murder on the Kansas City Special?: Pullman porters, emotions, and the strange case of J. H. Wilkins
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 racialised emotional terrain that porters navigated daily o...
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Cambridge University Press
2019
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50680/ |