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The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South (Working Class in American History) (1st Edition) by William Powell Jones Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2005 ISBN-10: 0-252-07229-4 / 0252072294 ISBN-13: 978-0-252-07229-1 / 9780252072291 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 on manuscript sources, local newspapers, and governme |