African Americans and the Western Timber Industry

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "What We Make of the West: Historical Archaeologists Versus Frontier Mythologies", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

In the 1920s to survive a slump in the supply of timber in the south, lumber companies moved out of the south to new timber markets in westerns states such as California and Arizona spurring a migration of highly skilled Black workers out of the south to the west. This migration, though seemingly little known, is evident today in the remanent pockets of Black communities in rural lumber town like Flagstaff and Winslow, Arizona and Oroville, California.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2024   •
• What We Make of the West: Historical Archaeologists Versus Frontier Mythologies

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