There was a certain name for african americans that built the railroads in the south in the early 20th century, they had a tv show in the 90’s about it. Does anyone know?

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1. African-American Civil Rights Movement (1896–1954) - Wikipedia on Ask.com
   
Yet the popular images of the loyal, contented black nursemaid, or “mammy,” were unfortunately far from the reality for the African-American women who worked in these homes. ... if we did object, we should be driven out without the least ceremony, and, in applying for work at other places, we should find it very hard...




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2. We Are Literally Slaves": An Early Twentieth-Century Black Nanny
   
Whether Bywater received pay comparable to male manufacturing executives is not known, but most female factory workers did not. The UMA reported in 1915 that Utah's 13 knitting factories employed nearly 300 workers--mostly women who earned an average of $9 for a six-day week while ... Utah in the Spanish American War...




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3. A Look at Working Women in the Early 20th Century
   
The transcontinental railroad is joined at Promontory, Utah Territory in 1869. ... African American parents in Topeka begin a campaign to desegregate the local schools. They receive a setback in 1890 when the Kansas Supreme Court in Reynolds v. Board of Education of Topeka decides the state’s school segregation law...




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4. African American History in the American West: Timeline | The Black
   
Bakelite was patented in 1907 by the Belgian-born American chemist Leo Hendrik Baekeland (November 14, 1863 - February 23, 1944). The Nobel Prize winning German chemist Adolf von Baeyer had experimented with this material in 1872, but did not complete its development or see its potential. ... this is what the Biro brothers did.




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5. Early Twentieth Century Inventors and Inventions: EnchantedLearning
   
Although the number of African American slaves grew slowly at first, by the 1680s they had become essential to the economy of Virginia. During the 17th and 18th centuries, African American slaves lived in all of England’s North American colonies.




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6. Chronology on the History of Slavery 1619 to 1789
   
the hostility and violence against African Americans, and the vic- ... tries and railroads into the South during this period in search of black workers. ..... cal officials seemed to run precisely counter to the governor's call ... cal beliefs than they did. Author Madison Grant captured their ...




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7. Rosewood and America in the Early Twentieth Century
   
By 1950 the Call and Post decried what it described as a "county wide system of barring Negro home builders in suburban areas by irregular building regulations." Where arson had failed to stem black home building, local government proved an effective weapon in the contest for suburban space.




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8. Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the
   
On December 9, 1918, Joel Woodson, an African American janitor at a Union Pacific Railroad social club in Green River, Wyoming, sought to order breakfast from a white waitress. When she stated that they were out of the item he had ordered, ... 1 This analysis defines a lynching as experts on mob violence did at Tuskegee,




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9. Race and Lynching in the American West in the Early Twentieth
   
National Historic Landmark Program's African American History Month; National Historic Landmarks are nationally significant historic places designated by the Secretary of the Interior because they possess exceptional value or quality in illustrating or interpreting the heritage of the United States.




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