Homecoming : the story of African-American farmers / / Charlene Gilbert and Quinn Eli

• Autore: Gilbert Charlene
• Pubblicazione: Boston, : Beacon Press, c2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (233 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.5/63/08996073075
• Soggetto topico: Freedmen - Southern States - Economic conditions; African American farmers - Southern States - Economic conditions; African Americans - Land tenure - Southern States - History; Freedmen - Southern States - Social conditions; African American farmers - Southern States - Social conditions; Land tenure - Southern States - History
• Soggetto geografico: Southern States Economic conditions; Southern States Race relations
• Altri autori: EliQuinn
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-175) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE :: Of Land and Love -- INTRODUCTION -- part one THE PROMISE LAND ::1850 -1899 -- TAKING ROOT ::The Civil War and Reconstruction -- A SECOND SLAVERY ::The Post-Reconstruction South -- part two THE CA LM BEFORE THE STORM 1900 -1928 -- STRENGTH IN NUMBE RS :: World War I and the Peak of Black Landownership -- LINES IN THE SAND :: Washington, Du Bois, and the Postwar Boom of the Early ....1920s -- part three HARVEST TIME ::1929 -1979 -- THE THICKENING SHADOWS ::Black Migration to the North -- FLY AWAY HOME ::Surviving the Great Depression -- WHERE THE PAST LEADS :: Black Agricultural Workers and the Promise of Roosevelt's New Deal -- THE PRICE OF PROGRESS :: World War II and the Call for Southern Change -- PLANTING SEEDS ::The Postwar Boom -- THE END WILL NOT TROUBLE YOU ::Civil Rights in the South -- EPILOGUE ::Home at Last (1980-Present) -- LIST OF PLAT ES AND CREDITS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX.
• Titolo autorizzato: Homecoming
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817491903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II