Boss of the Grips The Life of James H Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal First Edition by Eric K Washington 163149323X 9781631493232

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• ISBN 10: 163149323X
• ISBN 13: 9781631493232
• Author: Eric

Winner • Herbert H. Lehman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in New York History Winner • GANYC Apple Award for Outstanding Book Writing (Nonfiction) Finalist • Brendan Gill Prize (Municipal Art Society of New York) Open Letters Review • 10 Best Biographies of 2019 The Bowery Boys Podcast • 10 Favorite Books of 2019 A long-overdue biography of the head of Grand Central Terminal’s Red Caps, who flourished in the cultural nexus of Harlem and American railroads. In a feat of remarkable research and timely reclamation, Eric K. Washington uncovers the nearly forgotten life of James H. Williams (1878–1948), the chief porter of Grand Central Terminal’s Red Caps—a multitude of Harlem-based black men whom he organized into the essential labor force of America’s most august railroad station. Washington reveals that despite the highly racialized and often exploitative nature of the work, the Red Cap was a highly coveted job for college-bound black men determined to join New York’s bourgeoning middle class.

Table of contents:

Part I: Coming of Age on the Brink of the Twentieth Century

1. “To Hustle While You’re Waiting”

2. “A Gilded, but Gritty Age”

Part II: Twentieth Century Unlimited

3. “If We Cannot Go Forward, Let Us Mark Time”

4. Fraternity and Ascendancy

5. Harlem Exodus to the Bronx and to the Sea

6. War at Home and Abroad

Part III: Harlem Renaissance

7. “A Sweet Spot in Harlem Known as Strivers’ Row”

8. The Black Decade

9. Testaments in Transit

Part IV: Celebrity House

10. Bandwidths

11. Moving to the Dunbar

Part V: Eclipse

12. Organized Labor Pains

13. “Things Reiterated as the American Way”

14. A Second Marriage

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