The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South
(Part of the The Working Class in American History Series)
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The lumber industry employed more African American men than any southern economic sector outside agriculture. Yet little scholarship exists on these workers and their times. William P. Jones merges interviews with archival sources to explore black men and women's changing relationship to industrial work in the southern sawmill communities of Elizabethtown, North Carolina; Chapman, Alabama; and Bogalusa, Louisiana. By placing black lumber...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0252072294
ISBN13:9780252072291
Release Date:April 2005
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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