03845nam 2200673Ia 450 991096560410332120251117065123.01-60344-505-6(CKB)2670000000078969(OCoLC)607108481(CaPaEBR)ebrary10447180(SSID)ssj0000486934(PQKBManifestationID)11328757(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000486934(PQKBWorkID)10449745(PQKB)11231053(MiAaPQ)EBC3037865(OCoLC)779276076(MdBmJHUP)muse1205(Au-PeEL)EBL3037865(CaPaEBR)ebr10447180(OCoLC)923700511(BIP)35540402(BIP)13650439(EXLCZ)99267000000007896920120221d2007 ub 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrReaping a greater harvest African Americans, the extension service, and rural reform in Jim Crow Texas /Debra A. Reid1st ed.College Station Texas A&M University Pressc20071 online resource (328 p.) Sam Rayburn series on rural life ;no. 14Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-58544-571-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.African Americans and rural reform in Texas, 1891-1914 -- Forming separate bureaucracies : the Negro Division of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, 1915-20 -- Segregated modernization : taking the message into African American fields and farm homes -- Public reform in black and white : the maturation of a segregated division -- Building segregated social welfare : Texas' Negro Division and Roosevelt's New Deal -- Beyond the farm : cultivating new audiences and support systems at home and abroad -- Separation despite civil rights -- Measuring greater harvests.Jim Crow laws pervaded the south, reaching from the famous "separate yet equal" facilities to voting discrimination to the seats on buses. Agriculture, a key industry for those southern blacks trying to forge an independent existence, was not immune to the touch of racism, prejudice, and inequality. In "Reaping a Greater Harvest," Debra Reid deftly spotlights the hierarchies of race, class, and gender within the extension service. Black farmers were excluded from cooperative demonstration work in Texas until the Smith-Lever Agricultural Extension act in 1914. However, the resulting Negro Division included a complicated bureaucracy of African American agents who reported to white officials, were supervised by black administrators, and served black farmers. The now-measurable successes of these African American farmers exacerbated racial tensions and led to pressure on agents to maintain the status quo. The bureau that was meant to ensure equality instead became another tool for systematic discrimination and maintenance of the white-dominated southern landscape. Historians of race, gender, and class have joined agricultural historians in roundly praising Reid's work.Sam Rayburn series on rural life ;no. 14.African American agriculturistsTexasAgriculture and stateTexasAfrican AmericansTexasHistoryRural extensionTexasAfrican American agriculturistsAgriculture and stateAfrican AmericansHistory.Rural extension630.71/5Reid Debra A.1960-1862420MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910965604103321Reaping a greater harvest4475757UNINA