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William P. Jones, Assistant Professor

Office: Holton Hall, Room 365
Phone: (414) 229-3968
E-mail: wpjones@uwm.edu

Degree:
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000

Current Research Interests:
Civil Rights and Economic Justice: Black Public Service Workers and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), 1954-1983

Current Teaching Interests:
African American History
Multicultural America
History of Civil Rights

Recent Publications:
The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South (Forthcoming: University of Illinois Press, 2005).

"'Simple Truths of Democracy': African Americans and Organized Labor in the Post-World War II South," in Eric Arnesen, ed. The Black Worker: Race and Labor Activism since Emancipation (Forthcoming: University of Illinois Press. 2005).

"Out of Wisconsin: The Theory and Practice of Labor History" and "Five Suggestions for Teaching Working-Class History in a Classless Society," Voyageur: Northeast Wisconsin's Historical Review (Forthcoming, 2005).

"Black Workers, Organized Labor, and the Struggle for Civil Rights," review essay in Left History 8 (Spring 2003): 145-154.

"Black Workers and the CIO's Turn Toward Racial Liberalism: Operation Dixie and the North Carolina Lumber Industry, 1946-1953," Labor History 41 (August 2000): 279-306.

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