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Victory at home : manpower and race in the American South during World War II /

"During the past half century, the American south has undergone dramatic economic and social transformations. Gone is the South of cotton fields and cotton mills, of monocrop agriculture and rudimentary industries, of desperate poverty and stultifying racial segregation, the South that Franklin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chamberlain, Charles D., 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2003.
Colección:Economy and society in the modern South.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Tents, trailers, and shack towns: mobilizing the southern home front, 1939-1942
  • "Empty sermons": race and economic mobility on the southern home front, 1940-1942
  • "On the train and gone": worker mobility in the Cotton Belt, 1941-1945
  • The segregation frontier: African American migrant war workers in the Pacific West, 1941-1945
  • "We're not here to start a social revolution": southern black workers define equality, 1943-1945
  • "The South needs the Negro": demobilization and economic equality in the South, 1945-1948
  • "A virtual revolution in Negro leadership."