The H. L. Mitchell Award is awarded for recognition of a distinguished book concerning the history of the southern working class, including but not limited to industrial laborers and/or small farmers and agricultural laborers. Awarded in even-numbered years for a book published during the two preceding years, it will next be awarded at the 2008 annual meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana for a book published during 2006 and 2007. Entries should be submitted to the committee members listed below before March 1, 2008.

Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall (committee chair)
(New address as of 01/28/2008)
PMB 1051
220 N. Zapata Hwy #11
Laredo, TX 78043

Dr. Sally Hadden
215 Edgemoor Avenue
Kalamazoo, MI 49001

Dr. Clifford M. Kuhn
Department of History
812 General Class Room Bldg.
Georgia State University
38 Peachtree Center Ave.
Atlanta, GA 30303

The 2006 H. L. Mitchell Award Committee selected as the winner William P. Jones' The Tribe of Black Ulysses, African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South, published by the University of Illinois Press, 2005.