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You can't eat freedom : southerners and social justice after the Civil Rights Movement
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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, initiati...
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 autonomy, efforts that encountered strong opposition from free market proponents who opposed government action.
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- Greta de Jong
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- Language
- English
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- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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- 1 online resource (xii, 305 pages)
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- 9781469629322, 1469629321, 9781469629315, 9781469629308, 1469629313, 1469629305
- OCLC
- ocn957590612
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-285) and index.
- 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