Douglas Flamming

African Americans in the West

Based on the latest research, this work provides a new look at the lives of African Americans in the Western United States, from the colonial era to t...

Bound for Freedom

Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America

Paul Bontemps decided to move his family to Los Angeles from Louisiana in 1906 on the day he finally submitted to a strictly enforced Southern custom�...

African Americans in the West

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Creating the Modern South

Millhands and Managers in Dalton, Georgia, 1884-1984

In Creating the Modern South, Douglas Flamming examines one hundred years in the life of the mill and the town of Dalton, Georgia, providing a uniquel...

Victory at Home

Manpower and Race in the American South During World War II

Charles D. Chamberlain explores how southern working families used America's rapid wartime industrialization and an expanded federal presence to gain ...