Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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).