<p>This particular Oregon history is about African American loggers during&nbsp; the Great Migration of more than six million&nbsp;African Americans&nbsp;from the Jim Crow south to the north.&nbsp; It is a community history and the history of&nbsp;families a &quot;history from below.&quot;&nbsp;. It is stored coded and recalled in the memories of two generations as they descended from the original families. It is a fragile history&nbsp;passed&nbsp;orally&nbsp;from generation to generation and often is lost. &nbsp;It&nbsp;is not&nbsp;documented in books the pages of mainstream newspapers nor&nbsp;&nbsp;preserved in archival collections of photographs.</p><p>Thus this book was conceived as part of a memory project to recover and reconstruct the history of a rural community of African American loggers&nbsp;from memories of their aging descendants. These loggers and their families&nbsp;&nbsp;came to a railroad logging town Maxville Wallowa County Oregon between 1923 and the 1940s The memory project was based upon &ldquo;the interpretive authority of ordinary people&rdquo;&nbsp; thus giving power to the fragments and short memories of individuals to tell a community&rsquo;s story.</p><p><br />The personal stories were contextualized through extensive research using historical newspapers public records census records oral intrviews&nbsp;and the recorded memories of others.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
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