Title Reaping a greater harvest : African Americans, the extension service, and rural reform in Jim Crow Texas / Debra A. Reid

Edition 1st ed Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 248 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Sam Rayburn series on rural life ; no. 14 Sam Rayburn series on rural life ; no. 14. Contents Introduction -- Gone to Texas -- Revolution -- Bexar -- Contending Chieftains -- High Noon at Goliad -- Rio Grande -- "Go in and Die with the Boys" -- From Sea to Shining Sea -- Postscript -- Appendix: Grant's Men Summary "Historians of race, gender, and class will join agricultural historians in valuing this careful examination of an understudied development in a corner of the Jim Crow South. Photographs taken by agents as well as others commissioned by the USDA add a dramatic visual record of the challenges and successes of employees and constituents of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service's Negro Division."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-227) and index Notes Print version record Subject Texas Agricultural Extension Service. SUBJECT Texas Agricultural Extension Service fast Subject African American agriculturists -- Texas Agriculture and state -- Texas African Americans -- Texas -- History Rural extension -- Texas Rural development -- Texas African American agriculturists African Americans Agriculture and state Rural development Rural extension Texas Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2006021742 ISBN 1603445056 9781603445054

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