Homecoming : the story of African-American farmers /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gilbert, Charlene
Other Authors: Eli, Quinn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boston : Beacon Press, ©2000.
Subjects:
Freed persons > Southern States > Economic conditions.
African American farmers > Southern States > Economic conditions.
African Americans > Land tenure > Southern States > History.
Freed persons > Southern States > Social conditions.
African American farmers > Southern States > Social conditions.
Land tenure > Southern States > History.
Personnes affranchies > États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions économiques.
Agriculteurs noirs américains > États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions économiques.
Noirs américains > Terres > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Personnes affranchies > États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales.
Agriculteurs noirs américains > États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales.
African American farmers > Economic conditions
African American farmers > Social conditions
African Americans > Land tenure
Economic history
Freed persons > Economic conditions
Freed persons > Social conditions
Land tenure
Race relations
Geschichte
Landwirtschaft
Southern States > Economic conditions.
Southern States > Race relations.
États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions économiques.
États-Unis (Sud) > Relations raciales.
Southern States
USA > Südstaaten
Schwärze
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Of land and love
  • 1. Taking root: The Civil War and Reconstruction
  • 2. A second slavery: The Post-Reconstruction South
  • 3. Strength in numbers: World War I and the peak of Black landownership
  • 4. Lines in the sand: Washington, Du Bois, and the postwar boom of the early 1920's
  • 5. The thickening shadows: Black migration to the North
  • 6. Fly away home: surviving the Great Depression
  • 7. Where the past leads: Black agricultural workers and the promise of Roosevelt's New Deal
  • 8. The price of progress: World War II and the call for Southern change
  • 9. Planting seeds: the Postwar boom
  • 10. The end will not trouble you: Civil Rights in the South
  • Epilogue: Home at last (1980-present).

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