The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South by William P. Jones

The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South

The Working Class in American History

William P. Jones

256 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction race challenging informative slow-paced
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The lumber industry employed more African American men than any southern economic sector outside agriculture, yet those workers have been almost completely ignored by scholars. Drawing on a substantial number of oral history interviews as well as ...

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