WJ
Will Jones
@willpjones.bsky.social
Historian of race and class; Author: The March on Washington & The Tribe of Black Ulysses; Professor, University of Minnesota; President @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social; "Up For Debate" Editor @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social
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Bryant Simon's Hamlet Fire is great for race, gender, labor and policy between the 1930s and 1990s. It's a very powerful story that few students (and others) are aware of. uncpress.org/book/9781469...
The Hamlet Fire | Bryant Simon | University of North Carolina Press
For decades, the small, quiet town of Hamlet, North Carolina, thrived thanks to the railroad. But by the 1970s, it had become a postindustrial backwater, a m...
WJ
Will Jones
@willpjones.bsky.social
Historian of race and class; Author: The March on Washington & The Tribe of Black Ulysses; Professor, University of Minnesota; President @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social; "Up For Debate" Editor @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social
1.3k followers3.4k following516 posts