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African American women railroad track workers, 1942
The first unit of female railroad workers near Downingtown, PA.
Freight handling at the Pennsylvania Railroad Yards, 1938
An African-American railroad worker handles freight at the Pennsylvania Railroad Yards in 1938.
Four women railroad workers
An image of four African-American women working on a railroad in 1942.
Machine shop workers, Philadelphia, PA, circa 1938.
Machine Shop Workers in Philadelphia circa 1938.
Black factory girls in Philadelphia
Armstrong Association Tenth Annual Report (1918) featured a picture of African-American girls working in a factory.
Women working in tobacco plant
In this picture, an African-American woman strips the center stems from tobacco. In some factories, employers paid women by "piecework" whereas others would pay by punch cards. Each pan of tobacco was one punch, generally worth about twenty-five…
Wilmington and Northern Railroad Laborers
African-American laborers working on the Wilmington and Northern Railroad near the "New Bridge."
Brickyard Laborers
A photograph of mixed race workers at a brickyard in Haverstraw, NY. When James Plunkett first left Virginia, he worked at a brickyard in Haverstraw for the summer in 1917.