African Americans on CPRR
From: "Mayra París" maparis13[at]gmail.com
I just saw that in 2006 you answered a question on the CPRR Discussion Group blog about Chinese passengers on the railroad. I was wondering if you had similar information about African American passengers. I'm an author and I'm working on a novel about an African-American traveling from New York City to Oregon.
Would African American [black] passengers have been segregated from the other passengers in special cars or would they simply have been forced to buy seats in the lower class cars? I also would like to know if you can direct me to any type of resource that could tell me about prices and travel times circa 1890? ...
—Mayra Paris
I just saw that in 2006 you answered a question on the CPRR Discussion Group blog about Chinese passengers on the railroad. I was wondering if you had similar information about African American passengers. I'm an author and I'm working on a novel about an African-American traveling from New York City to Oregon.
Would African American [black] passengers have been segregated from the other passengers in special cars or would they simply have been forced to buy seats in the lower class cars? I also would like to know if you can direct me to any type of resource that could tell me about prices and travel times circa 1890? ...
—Mayra Paris
posted from CPRR Discussion Group at 8:04 AM
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