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. Jim Crow laws - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
   
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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2. African-American Civil Rights Movement (1896–1954) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
   
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. Early Twentieth Century Inventors and Inventions: EnchantedLearning
   
The 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century ... July 30 -- Louis Armstrong thought so little of the song when he recorded it in late 1963, that when fans first clamored for it at his shows concerts year later, he had to ask a sideman what they were talking about.




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4. A Look at Working Women in the Early 20th Century
   
Just after 1865, most of African Americans did not want to remember the songs they sung in hard days of slavery. ... It appears that today everyone may perform Gospel music in the United States. The main issue is to know how to improve the African American integrity in singing negro spirituals and other Christian songs.




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5. NPR 100
   
The Transformation of Modern America, 1912-1945; Postwar America, 1945-Present ; The World in the 20th Century - Lectures for 20th Century World ; The Age of Anxiety ; Who's Who in American History; ... United Pacific Rail Road-History & Photos; Railroad.net - The Railroad Network ; Welcome to The Cyberspace World...




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6. History Official Site of Negro Spirituals, antique Gospel Music
   
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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7. 20th Century America
   
If you're a history buff, a railroad buff, or are interested in African American history, ... An additional chapter considers the railroads in African American literature and the visual arts. The book includes many carefully annotated photographs which are not always presented in the book in the chapters to which they refer.




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8. We Are Literally Slaves": An Early Twentieth-Century Black Nanny
   
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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