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Author Roll, Jarod author

Title Spirit of rebellion : labor and religion in the new cotton South / Jarod Roll
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2010]

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Description 1 online resource
Series The working class in American history
Working class in American history.
Contents A modern promised land -- Jerusalem -- Saviors of agriculture -- No more mourning -- Bear our burdens together -- On Jordan's stormy Banks
Summary Winner of the Herbert G. Gutman Prize from the Labor and Working-Class History Association In Spirit of Rebellion, Jarod Roll documents an alternative tradition of American protest by linking working-class political movements to grassroots religious revivals. He reveals how ordinary rural citizens in the south used available resources and their shared faith to defend their agrarian livelihoods amid the political and economic upheaval of the first half of the twentieth century. On the frontier of the New Cotton South in Missouri's Bootheel, the relationships between black and white farmers were complicated by racial tensions and bitter competition. Despite these divisions, workers found common ground as dissidents fighting for economic security, decent housing, and basic health, ultimately drawing on the democratic potential of evangelical religion to wage working-class revolts against commodity agriculture and the political forces that buoyed it. Roll convincingly shows how the moral clarity and spiritual vigor these working people found in the burgeoning Pentecostal revivals gave them the courage and fortitude to develop an expansive agenda of workers' rights by tapping into the powers of existing organizations such as the Socialist Party, the Universal Negro Improvement Association, the NAACP, and the interracial Southern Tenant Farmers' Union
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-252) and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Tenant farmers -- Missouri -- History
African American farmers -- Missouri -- History
Labor movement -- Missouri -- History
Working class -- Religious life -- Missouri -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
RELIGION -- General.
African American farmers
Labor movement
Tenant farmers
Working class -- Religious life
Missouri
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019720017
ISBN 9780252099267
0252099265
9781444315806
1444315803