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Beyond forty acres and a mule African American landowning families since Reconstruction

Title
Beyond forty acres and a mule [electronic resource] : 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, 2012.

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Additional Authors
  • Reid, Debra A., 1960-
  • Bennett, Evan P.
Description
1 online resource (xviii, 350 p.) : ill., maps.
Uniform Title
Beyond forty acres and a mule (Online)
Subject
  • African American farmers > History
  • African Americans > Land tenure > History
  • African American farmers > Economic conditions
  • African American farmers > Political conditions
  • Freedmen > 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.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2012001107
OCLC
ssj0000720058
Title
Beyond forty acres and a mule [electronic resource] : 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, 2012.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Reid, Debra A., 1960-
Bennett, Evan P.
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