The lumber industry employed more African American men than any southern economic sector outside agriculture, yet those worker have been almost completely ignored by scholars. Drawing on a substantial number of oral history interviews as well as on manuscript sources, local newspapers, and government documents, "The Tribe of Black Ulysses explores black men and women's changing relationship to industrial work in three sawmill communities (Elizabethtown, South Carolina,…
Author: William Powell Jones · Original publisher: University of Illinois Press (2005), The Working Class in American History series
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