| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Eric Arnesen. Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2001. Pp. 332. $39.95.

In the passionate debates over the state of the African-American community of the past thirty years, too infrequently have policy makers—and historians—taken note of the vital contribution unions made to ensure "occupational stability and security" (p. 2) for black workers. Railroads were "one of the most highly institutionalized forms of industrialized segregation," as Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) head Samuel C. Jackson wrote in 1966 (p. 2), but pioneering civil rights activism to abolish stratified racialist practices, steady jobs, and manhood wages for black workers led to relative prosperity for tens of thousands of families: home ownership, family stability, college-bound children, church going, and community leadership. Eric Arnesen's sweeping narrative is a masterful history of railroad workers and their struggles for racial equality against the "Big Four" white brotherhoods, paternalistic company managers, and indifferent federal officials (Jackson notwithstanding) from the 1820s to the present. . . .

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