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Colored Trainmen of America (C.T. of A.) Records
The new St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico Railway, headquartered in Kingsville, opened up jobs for African-American workers. The African-American workers were not allowed to be in white unions so they formed their own, the Colored Trainmen of America, which was formed in Kingsville, Texas by the black railroad workers of the Gulf Coast Line.

Kingsville Black Community Collection
Thirty-six separate oral history interviews, video tapes, slides, photographs and written histories documenting the history of the Black community of Kingsville are included in this collection. Complementing this collection are a three volume manuscript by Dan Eggleston on the Quarters and documents left by Hosea Bush about the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, a Black union of railroad workers.