Hayden, Robert C.

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Robert C. Hayden, history professor at Northeastern University and president of RCH Associates, interviewed thirty-two retired Boston African American railroad workers over a period of two years as background research for a special permanent exhibition. "The Knights of the Rail" exhibition was dedicated in 1991 at the MBTA Back Bay/South End Station. It commemorates African American labor and civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph and Boston's African American railroad workers.

From the description of Transcripts of oral history interviews with Boston African American railroad workers, 1977-1991 (bulk, 1988-1991). (University of Massachusetts at Boston). WorldCat record id: 52839609

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New Bedford (Mass.)
Oak Bluffs (Mass.)
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Birth 1937

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