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Beyond forty acres and a mule : African American landowning families since Reconstruction
- Title
- Beyond forty acres and a mule : African American landowning families since Reconstruction / edited by Debra A. Reid and Evan P. Bennett ; foreword by Loren Schweninger.
- Publication
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2012.
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- Description
- xviii, 350 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
- Subject
- African American farmers > History
- African Americans > Land tenure > History
- African American farmers > Economic conditions
- African American farmers > Politics and government
- Freed persons > United States > Economic conditions
- African American farmers > Southern States > History
- African Americans > Land tenure > History. > Southern States
- African American farmers > Southern States > Economic conditions
- United States > Race relations
- Southern States > Race relations
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Debra A. Reid -- Historiography and philosophy. -- The Jim Crow section of agricultural history / Adrienne Petty -- Farm acquisition and retention. -- Out of Mount Vernon's shadow : black landowners in George Washington's neighborhood, 1870-1910 / Scott E. Casper -- James E. Youngblood : race, family, and farm ownership in Jim Crow Texas / Keith J. Volanto -- Benjamin Hubert and the Association for the Advancement of Negro Country Life / Mark Schultz -- Agrarianism and black politics. -- Black populism : agrarian politics from the colored alliance to the people's party / Omar H. Ali -- "The Lazarus of American farmers": the politics of black agrarianism in the Jim Crow South, 1921-1938 / Jarod Roll -- Farm families at work. -- Land ownership and the color line: African American farmers in the heartland, 1870s-1920s / Debra A. Reid -- Of the quest of the golden leaf: black farmers and bright tobacco in the Piedmont South / Evan P. Bennett -- "Justifiable pride": negotiation and collaboration in Florida African American extension / Kelly A. Minor -- Legal activism and civil rights expansion. -- Black power in the Alabama black belt to the 1970s / Veronica L. Womack -- "You're just like mules, you don't know your own strength": rural South Carolina blacks and the emergence of the civil rights struggle / Carmen V. Harris -- Between forty acres and a class action lawsuit: black farmers, civil rights, and protest against the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1997-2010 / Valerie Grim -- Researching African American land and farm owners: a bibliographic essay / Debra A. Reid.
- Call Number
- Sc E 12-926
- ISBN
- 9780813039862 (acid-free paper)
- 081303986X (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2012001107
- OCLC
- 748330887
- Title
- Beyond forty acres and a mule : African American landowning families since Reconstruction / edited by Debra A. Reid and Evan P. Bennett ; foreword by Loren Schweninger.
- Imprint
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Reid, Debra A., 1960-Bennett, Evan P.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 12-926