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The Second Great Emancipation : The Mechanical Cotton Picker, Black Migration, and How They Shaped the Modern South /
"Development of the mechanical cotton picker not only made possible the continuation of cotton cultivation in the post-plantation era, it helped free the region of Jim Crow laws as political power was relocated from farms to cities and thereby opened the door for the civil rights movement of th...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Fayetteville :
University of Arkansas,
2000.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ch. 1. Mules and Tenants: Hand Labor in the Cotton South
- Ch. 2. "Too Much Land, Too Many Mules, and Too Much Ignorant Labor"
- Ch. 3. Inventions and Inventors: The Challenge of Mechanical Cotton Picking
- Ch. 4. The Agricultural Adjustment Administration and Structural Change in the Cotton South
- Ch. 5. Impending Revolution: John Rust and Reactions to His Machine
- Ch. 6. Cotton Harvester Sweepstakes: The Race for the Cotton Picker Market in the 1940s
- Ch. 7. The Cotton South's Gradual Revolution, 1950-1970
- Ch. 8. Mechanization, Black Migration, and the Labor Supply in the Cotton South
- Ch. 9. The Great Migration and the Mechanical Cotton Picker: Cause or Effect?
- Ch. 10. The Consequences of Cotton Mechanization.