Women Who Built and Maintained the Railroads

from Badass Women of America · host Kit and Sherlock

Send us Fan MailIf you think only men built the railroads, think again.Enslaved black women were "rented" to railroad companies by their "slave owners" to build the railroads in the early to mid 1800s.Plus women inventors who improved railroad safety and construction in the 1800s.Then both black and white women maintained the railroads during WW1 and WW2 to keep the country moving.Join Kit and Sherlock for this eye-opening episode of almost 200 years of women in the railroads.See pictures and additional information about Badass Women of America on Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/badass_women_of_america/

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