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William Jones

Bio Sketch: I am a historian of the 20th Century United States, with a particular interest in race, class and work. I wrote my first book on African American industrial workers in the early-20th Century South and am currently researching a book on race in the service sector after World War II. Research Interests: Social and Political, 20th Century US, Labor and Working Class, African American. Selected Publications: The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005). H.L. Mitchell Award, Southern Historical Association, 2006 Wentworth Illinois History Book Award, 2005. “Working Class Hero: The Forgotten Labor Roots of the Martin Luther King Holiday,” The Nation (January 30, 2006): 23-24 “The Legacy of Failure: Why the Solid South Has Proved So Hard to Crack,” New Labor Forum (Fall, 2006): 32-39. “‘Simple Truths of Democracy’: African Americans and Organized Labor in the Post-World War II South,” in Eric Arnesen, ed., The Black Worker: Race, Labor, and Civil Rights Since Emancipation (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007). “Black Milwaukee, Proletarianization, and the Making of Black Working-Class History,” Journal of Urban History 33 (May 2007).

  • The Tribe of Black Ulysses

    July 17, 2013

    http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/77nmb2xn9780252029790.html   The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South…

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