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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.

Publisher:

University Press of Florida,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xviii, 350 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

African American farmers--History.
African Americans--History.--History.
African American farmers--Economic conditions.
African American farmers--Political conditions.
Freedmen--United States--Economic conditions.
African American farmers--Southern States--History.
African Americans--History.--Southern--History.
African American farmers--Southern States--Economic conditions.
United States--Race relations.
Southern States--Race relations.

Other Authors:

Reid, Debra Ann, 1960-
Bennett, Evan P.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

081303986X (acid-free paper)
9780813039862 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)748330887

LCCN:

2012001107

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)