African American Loggers Series
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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
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- But Not Jim Crow: Family Memories of African American Loggers of Maxville, Oregon
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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
Pearl Alice Marsh
Pearl Alice Marsh was born in La Grande, Oregon and lived in the town of Wallowa, Oregon until the age of twelve. She is the daughter of Amos Marsh, Sr. and Mary (Patterson) Marsh and the granddaughter of Joseph "Pa Pat" Patterson, Sr. and Arie "Ma Pat" (Spears) Patterson, well-known African-American loggers and spouses in the area, and is a former president of the Maxville Heritage Interpretative Center. Her work documenting Oregon's Black logging history has been featured in Oregon Historical Quarterly and on Oregon Public Broadcasting's Think Out Loud. She is the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California at Berkeley, and she served with the U. S. House of Representatives International Relations Committee as a Senior Policy Advisor with expertise in African political, economic, social, and development issues until her retirement in 2013.
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