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But Not Jim Crow : Family Memories of African American Loggers of Maxville, Oregon - Pearl Alice Marsh

But Not Jim Crow

Family Memories of African American Loggers of Maxville, Oregon

By: Pearl Alice Marsh

eBook | 23 April 2019 | Edition Number 1

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This book is about African American loggers who came to Oregon during the Great Migration of more than six million African Americans from the Jim Crow south to the north.  They began arriving in Maxville, a railroad-logging town in Wallowa County owned by the Bowman Hicks Lumber Company.  They first arrived in 1923 and continued to come until the mid-1940s.  

Chapters one and two document the migration from historical newspapers, public records, local photo archives, and oral history sources.  The third chapter introduces the six extended families and their southern roots.  The fourth chapter contains the fifteen descendants’memories – beginning with the memoir of one of the logger followed by the memories of fifteen descendants of the six families.

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“An important work, long overdue.  Readers will be rewarded with a deeper understanding of the interplay between Oregon’s developing lumber industry and the complex dynamics of race relations in the rural American West of Wallowa County, Oregon.”
                                      David Weaver, President Wallowa History Center

“These are touching, revealing and interesting stories of life under sometimes desperate circumstances that speak truth, challenge misconceptions and reveal the humanity of a people who deserve to be seen, heard and understood. ...delightful tales that speak a fuller truth of life in Oregon.”
                                S. Renee Mitchell, Writer. Artist. Creative Revolutionist

   

 

 

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