05066nam 2200793Ia 450 991078574210332120220416021731.00-8130-4377-80-8130-4353-0(CKB)2670000000242234(EBL)1026587(OCoLC)811507125(SSID)ssj0000720058(PQKBManifestationID)11427787(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000720058(PQKBWorkID)10660784(PQKB)10752535(StDuBDS)EDZ0000092593(MiAaPQ)EBC1026587(MdBmJHUP)muse22484(Au-PeEL)EBL1026587(CaPaEBR)ebr10603467(CaONFJC)MIL513063(OCoLC)812066844(EXLCZ)99267000000024223420120120d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBeyond 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 SchweningerGainesville University Press of Floridac20121 online resource (369 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8130-3986-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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, 1870's-1920's / 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 1970's / 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.This collection chronicles the tumultuous history of landowning African American farmers from the end of the Civil War to today. Each essay provides a case study of people in one place at a particular time and the factors that affected their ability to acquire, secure, and protect their land. The contributors walk readers through a century and a half of African American agricultural history, from the strivings of black farm owners in the immediate post-emancipation period to the efforts of contemporary black farm owners to receive justice through the courts for decades of discriminationAfrican American farmersHistoryAfrican AmericansLand tenureHistoryAfrican American farmersEconomic conditionsAfrican American farmersPolitics and governmentFreed personsUnited StatesEconomic conditionsAfrican American farmersSouthern StatesHistoryAfrican AmericansLand tenureSouthern StatesHistoryAfrican American farmersSouthern StatesEconomic conditionsUnited StatesRace relationsSouthern StatesRace relationsAfrican American farmersHistory.African AmericansLand tenureHistory.African American farmersEconomic conditions.African American farmersPolitics and government.Freed personsEconomic conditions.African American farmersHistory.African AmericansLand tenureHistory.African American farmersEconomic conditions.305.5/6308996073075305.56308996305.56308996073075Reid Debra Ann1960-1109678Bennett Evan P956902MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785742103321Beyond forty acres and a mule3746027UNINA