| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2

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Book Review

Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925–1945. By Beth Tompkins Bates. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xiv, 275 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2614-6. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-8078-4929-4.)

The role of African Americans in the design of their own lives has been a constant theme in African American history over the last twenty-five years. Authors in this tradition have attempted to show how people worked to manufacture full lives despite restrictions of race, status, gender, and class. This approach has dwelled on success and failure, individual and collective. Every so often a book in this tradition appears that covers a familiar story with new care and insight. Beth Tompkins Bates's book on the Pullman porters and the rise of protest politics within black communities is such a book. . . .

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