| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Southern classics series |
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Southern classics series.
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| Contents |
Evidences of important changes in its ideals -- New energy is evident in Virginia -- Durham and the famous Duke Family -- Tolerance shown in North Carolina -- In the mill region of South Carolina -- Is the southern black man "making good"? -- Florida recovering from its depression -- Progress as noted in rural Aabama -- The present and the future of Birmingham -- Fiery Governor Vardaman of Mississippi -- Mississippi's land awaiting improvement -- What the levees are worth to Mississippi -- New Orleans and its bright future -- Texas, the land of mighty contrasts -- The awakening of Texas in agriculture -- On the vast plains of southern Texas -- Educational endowments in Texas -- Texas as a grain-growing state -- Unreliable labor responsible for its backwardness -- Rehabilitation is now almost complete |
| Summary |
In 1904 William Garrott Brown traveled the American South, investigating the region's political, economic and social conditions. Using the pen name "Stanton" Brown published 20 epistles in the Boston Evening Transcript detailing his observations. The South at Work is a compilation of these newspaper articles, providing a valuable snapshot of the South as it was simultaneously emerging from post-Civil War economic depression and imposing on African Americans the panoply of Jim Crow laws and customs that sought to exclude them from all but the lowest rungs of southern society. A Harvard-educated historian and journalist originally from Alabama, Brown had been commissioned by the Evening Transcript to visit a wide range of locations and to chronicle the region with a greater depth than that of typical travelers' accounts. Some articles featured familiar topics such as a tobacco warehouse in Durham, North Carolina; a textile mill in Columbia, South Carolina; and the vast steel mills at Birmingham. However, Brown also covered atypical enterprises such as citrus farming in Florida, the King Ranch in Texas, and the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. To add perspective, he talked to businessmen and politicians, as well as everyday workers. In addition to describing the importance of diversifying the South's agricultural economy beyond cotton, Brown addressed race relations and the role of politicians such as James K. Vardaman of Mississippi, the growth of African American communities such as Hayti in Durham, and the role universities played in changing the intellectual climate of the South. The editor, Bruce E. Baker, has written an introduction and provided thorough annotations for each of Brown's letters. Baker demonstrates the value of the collection as it touches on racism, moderate progressivism, and accommodation with the political status quo in the South. Baker and Brown's combined work makes The South at Work one of the most detailed and interesting portraits of the region at the beginning of the twentieth century. Publication in book form makes The South at Work conveniently available to students and scholars of modern southern and American history |
| Analysis |
HISTORY / General |
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History |
| Notes |
Compliation of 20 articles previously published in various newspapers and other periodicals in 1904 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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Race relations
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Southern States -- History -- 1865-1951. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125649
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Southern States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90004000
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Southern States -- Race relations
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| Subject |
Southern States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781611173765 |
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1611173760 |
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1306949343 |
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9781306949347 |
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