Jeff Crawford, M.A. is a history instructor at Butte College, in Oroville California, specializing in African American and Middle Eastern studies.  He completed his master's thesis titled “The African American Mill Workers of the Quincy Lumber Company, 1926-1955,” At Chico State University in 2006.  Jeff Is involved in a budding non-profit organization in Oroville dedicated to documenting the history of another southern lumber company that also recruited black mill workers from the South.