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Beyond forty acres and a mule : African American landowning families since Reconstruction
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- Creator
- edited by Debra A. Reid and Evan P. Bennett ; foreword by Loren Schweninger
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2012
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 350 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 081303986X, 0813043530, 9780813043777, 9780813039862, 0813043778, 9780813043531
- OCLC
- ocn748330887, ocn811507125, ocn812066844
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction / Debra A. Reid -- Historiography and philosophy. -- The Jim Crow section of agricultural history / Adrienne Petty -- Farm acquisition and retention. -- Out of Mount Vernon's shadow : black landowners in George Washington's neighborhood, 1870-1910 / Scott E. Casper -- James E. Youngblood : race, family, and farm ownership in Jim Crow Texas / Keith J. Volanto -- Benjamin Hubert and the Association for the Advancement of Negro Country Life / Mark Schultz -- Agrarianism and black politics. -- Black populism : agrarian politics from the colored alliance to the people's party / Omar H. Ali -- "The Lazarus of American farmers": the politics of black agrarianism in the Jim Crow South, 1921-1938 / Jarod Roll -- Farm families at work. -- Land ownership and the color line: African American farmers in the heartland, 1870s-1920s / Debra A. Reid -- Of the quest of the golden leaf: black farmers and bright tobacco in the Piedmont South / Evan P. Bennett -- "Justifiable pride": negotiation and collaboration in Florida African American extension / Kelly A. Minor -- Legal activism and civil rights expansion. -- Black power in the Alabama black belt to the 1970s / Veronica L. Womack -- "You're just like mules, you don't know your own strength": rural South Carolina blacks and the emergence of the civil rights struggle / Carmen V. Harris -- Between forty acres and a class action lawsuit: black farmers, civil rights, and protest against the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1997-2010 / Valerie Grim -- Researching African American land and farm owners: a bibliographic essay / Debra A. Reid
Subjects
- African American farmers -- History.
- African Americans -- Land tenure -- History.
- African American farmers -- Economic conditions.
- African American farmers -- Politics and government.
- Freed persons -- United States -- Economic conditions.
- African American farmers -- Southern States -- History.
- African Americans -- Land tenure -- Southern States -- History.
- African American farmers -- Southern States -- Economic conditions.
- United States -- Race relations.
- Southern States -- Race relations.