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Title African American life in the rural South, 1900-1950 / edited by R. Douglas Hurt
Published Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 227 pages) : illustrations
Contents "Lookin' for better all the time" : rural migration and urbanization in the South, 1900-1950 / Louis M. Kyriakoudes -- "A crude and raw past" : work, folklife, and anti-agrarianism in twentieth-century African American autobiography / Ted Ownby -- "Of the least and the most" : the African American rural church / Lois E. Myers, Rebecca Sharpless -- Shifting boundaries : race relations in the rural Jim Crow South / Melissa Walker -- African American rural culture, 1900-1950 / Valerie Grim -- Benign public policies, malignant consequences, and the demise of African American agriculture / William P. Browne -- "I have been through fire" : black agricultural extension agents and the politics of negotiation / Jeannie Whayne -- Exit, voice, and loyalty : African American strategies for day-to-day existence/resistance in the early-twentieth-century rural South / Peter Coclanis, Bryant Simon
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject African Americans -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
African American farmers -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
Agriculture -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
Sharecropping -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
Agriculture -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- State & Local.
African American farmers
African Americans
African Americans -- Social conditions
Agriculture -- Social aspects
Race relations
Rural conditions
Sharecropping
Landleben
Platteland.
SUBJECT Southern States -- History -- 1865-1951. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125649
Southern States -- Race relations
Southern States -- Rural conditions
Subject United States
Southern States
USA -- Südstaaten
Schwärze
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Hurt, R. Douglas
LC no. 2003002150
ISBN 0826263755
9780826263759