Not All Okies Are White

Cover of Not all Okies are white :  the lives of Black cotton pickers in Arizona
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Not all Okies are white : the lives of Black cotton pickers in Arizona

By Geta J. LeSeur. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, c2000.

The author of this book is currently a professor of English at the University of Arizona. Sixteen years ago, Geta J. LeSeur collected oral histories from Black cotton pickers in Arizona. These are a special population of migrant workers who formed their own community (not by choice, of course) the town of Randolph, Arizona from 1930 through 1960. Each chapter is named after the person speaking in the oral history interview. There are family photographs throughout the book. This work is an essential part of Arizona state history.

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