| Description |
vi, 227 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
"Lookin' for better all the time" : rural migration and urbanization in the South, 1900-1950 / Louis M. Kyriakoudes -- "Crude and raw past" : work, folklife, and anti-agrarianism in twentieth-century African American autobiography / Ted Ownby -- "Of the least and the most" : the African American rural church / Lois E. Myers, Rebecca Sharpless -- Shifting boundaries : race relations in the rural Jim Crow South / Melissa Walker -- African American rural culture, 1900-1950 / Valerie Grim -- Benign public policies, malignant consequences, and the demise of African American agriculture / William P. Browne -- "I have been through fire" : black agricultural extension agents and the politics of negotiation / Jeannie Whayne -- Exit, voice, and loyalty : African American strategies for day-to-day existence/resistance in the early-twentieth-century rural South / Peter Coclanis, Bryant Simon. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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African American farmers -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
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Agriculture -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
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Sharecropping -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
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Southern States -- History -- 1865-1951.
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Southern States -- Race relations.
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Southern States -- Rural conditions.
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| Added Author |
Hurt, R. Douglas.
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| ISBN |
0826214711 (alk. paper) |
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