Homecoming : The Story of African-American Farmers.
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TextPublisher: Boston : Beacon Press, 2000Copyright date: ©2000Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (233 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780807009628
- Freedmen -- Southern States -- Economic conditions
- African American farmers -- Southern States -- Economic conditions
- African Americans -- Land tenure -- Southern States -- History
- Freedmen -- Southern States -- Social conditions
- African American farmers -- Southern States -- Social conditions
- Land tenure -- Southern States -- History
- Southern States -- Economic conditions
- 305.5/63/08996073075
- E185.8 -- .G52 2000eb
Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE :: Of Land and Love -- INTRODUCTION -- part one THE PROMISE LAND ::1850 -1899 -- TAKING ROOT ::The Civil War and Reconstruction -- A SECOND SLAVERY ::The Post-Reconstruction South -- part two THE CA LM BEFORE THE STORM 1900 -1928 -- STRENGTH IN NUMBE RS :: World War I and the Peak of Black Landownership -- LINES IN THE SAND :: Washington, Du Bois, and the Postwar Boom of the Early ....1920s -- part three HARVEST TIME ::1929 -1979 -- THE THICKENING SHADOWS ::Black Migration to the North -- FLY AWAY HOME ::Surviving the Great Depression -- WHERE THE PAST LEADS :: Black Agricultural Workers and the Promise of Roosevelt's New Deal -- THE PRICE OF PROGRESS :: World War II and the Call for Southern Change -- PLANTING SEEDS ::The Postwar Boom -- THE END WILL NOT TROUBLE YOU ::Civil Rights in the South -- EPILOGUE ::Home at Last (1980-Present) -- LIST OF PLAT ES AND CREDITS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX.
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