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The tribe of Black Ulysses : African American lumber workers in the Jim Crow south
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The lumber industry employed more African American men than any other economic sector in the Southern States outside agriculture. This study explores the changing relationship to industrial work in...
The lumber industry employed more African American men than any other economic sector in the Southern States outside agriculture. This study explores the changing relationship to industrial work in three sawmill communities.
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- Creator
- William P. Jones
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- Language
- English
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- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2005]
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- xv, 235 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0252029798, 9780252029790, 0252072294, 9780252072291
- OCLC
- ocm56111580
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-222) and index.
- Remaking a southern lumber mill world -- Black families between farm and factory -- Race, class and leisure in the industrial South -- The new deal and the new tradition -- Race, region, and the limits of industrial unionism -- Black working-class politics in the postwar South