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

by William P. Jones

Book Overview

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"