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Author Gilbert, Charlene

Title Homecoming : the story of African-American farmers / Charlene Gilbert and Quinn Eli
Published Boston : Beacon Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (193 pages, 31 pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents Preface: Of land and love --1. Taking root: The Civil War and Reconstruction --2. A second slavery: The Post-Reconstruction South --3. Strength in numbers: World War I and the peak of Black landownership --4. Lines in the sand: Washington, Du Bois, and the postwar boom of the early 1920's --5. The thickening shadows: Black migration to the North --6. Fly away home: surviving the Great Depression --7. Where the past leads: Black agricultural workers and the promise of Roosevelt's New Deal --8. The price of progress: World War II and the call for Southern change --9. Planting seeds: the Postwar boom --10. The end will not trouble you: Civil Rights in the South --Epilogue: Home at last (1980-present)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-175) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Freed persons -- Southern States -- Economic conditions
African American farmers -- Southern States -- Economic conditions
African Americans -- Land tenure -- Southern States -- History
Freed persons -- Southern States -- Social conditions
African American farmers -- Southern States -- Social conditions
Land tenure -- Southern States -- History
African American farmers -- Economic conditions
African American farmers -- Social conditions
African Americans -- Land tenure
Economic history
Freed persons -- Economic conditions
Freed persons -- Social conditions
Land tenure
Race relations
Geschichte
Landwirtschaft
SUBJECT Southern States -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125640
Southern States -- Race relations
Subject Southern States
USA -- Südstaaten
Schwärze
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Eli, Quinn