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

Citation Type: Book, Whole

Publication Year: 2005

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Abstract: A study of African American men who worked in the southern lumber industry in the 1930s and 1940s. Argues that industrial employment provided a vehicle through which black men survived the violence and economic hardship that accompanied the collapse of southern agriculture after the First World War.

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Authors: Jones, William P.

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Publisher Location: Champaign, IL

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity

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