Carroll G. Barber collection
Scope and Contents
This collection is Carroll G. Barber's research file on the history of McNary, a Louisiana lumber town that was relocated from Louisiana to Arizona in 1924 when the William Cady Lumber Company acquired property in Arizona. Barber was actively engaged in documenting this community from the 1960s to the 1990s, and correspondence demonstrates Barber's efforts in compiling this information from an array of sources. This move involved two trainloads of Louisiana-based employees and their families, their personal belongings, and sawmill and logging machinery, and this move even involved a change of the Arizona town's name to McNary. Ultimately, the plant and the community were acquired by Southwest Forest Industries, and it remained in operation until 1979, when a fire consumed the mill. The workforce was largely African American.
The collection contains correspondence, collected articles on the history of McNary, a map of the town in Arizona, pamphlets and publications from the Southwest Forest Industries, and unpublished essays on the town and its lumber industry. Also included are four articles on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona. A 1924 article from American Forests and Forest Life documents the contemporary history of the relocation of the lumber town and its relocation to Arizona, as well as the ecological implications of the abandoned, denuded forest in Louisiana.
Dates
- Created: 1924-1990
- Other: Date acquired: 10/20/1993
Creator
- Barber, Carroll G. (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright to these papers has not been assigned to the Amistad Research Center. It is the responsibility of an author to secure permission for publication from the holder of the copyright to any material contained in this collection.
Biographical Note
Carroll G. Barber (1924-1999) was born in Wheaton, Illinois, on August 26, 1924. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in 1948 and a graduate degree in anthropology from the University of Arizona. He worked for a time as an anthropologist in Sonora, Mexico. In 1961, he became associated with Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, serving as a part-time instructor in the anthropology department. In July of that year, he participated in a Freedom Ride from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Jackson, Mississippi, and was arrested on July 15, 1961. Barber served as a staff associate of the Race Relations Institute of the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries, housed at Fisk University, and may have also, for a time, been employed by the Amistad Research Center, which resided on Fisk's campus. Barber later relocated to Tucson, Arizona, where he retired as a librarian with the Tucson Public Library. Sources: Carroll G. Barber obituary. Arizona Daily Star, May 18, 1999. Interview of Carroll Barber by Robert Penn Warren, February 16, 1964. Robert Penn Warren Civil Rights Oral History Project (https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/ark:/16417/xt7bk35m9h13) "Carroll G. Barber." Robert Penn Warren's Who Speaks for the Negro? An Archival Collection (https://whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu/interviewee/carroll-barber)
Extent
0.20 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Source of Acquisition
Carroll G. Barber
Method of Acquisition
Gift
Creator
- Barber, Carroll G. (Person)
- Title
- Carroll G. Barber collection
- Author
- Andrew Salinas
- Date
- 08/25/2013
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Amistad Research Center Repository
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