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You Can't Eat Freedom : Southerners and Social Justice after the Civil Rights Movement /
Focusing on the plantation regions of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, Greta de Jong analyzes how social justice activists responded to mass unemployment by lobbying political leaders, initiating anti-poverty projects, and forming cooperative enterprises that fostered economic and political auto...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The man don't need me anymore: from free labor to displaced persons
- This is home: black workers' responses to displacement and out-migration
- They could make some decisions: the war on poverty and community action
- Okra is a threat: the low-income cooperative movement
- OEO is finished: federal withdrawal and the return to states' rights
- To build something, where they are: the federation of southern cooperatives and rural economic development
- A world of despair: free enterprise and its failures
- Government cannot solve our problems: legacies of displacement
- Conclusion.