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Author:

De Jong, Greta, author.

Title:

You can't eat freedom : Southerners and social justice after the Civil Rights Movement / Greta de Jong.

Publisher:

The University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xii, 305 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Subject:

Southern States--Economic conditions--1945-
African Americans--Social conditions--1964-1975.
African Americans--Economic conditions.
Agriculture--Economic aspects--Southern States.
Southern States--History--1951-
Migration, Internal--United States--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-285) and index.

Contents:

The man don't need me anymore: from free labor to displaced persons -- This is home: black workers' responses to displacement and out-migration -- They could make some decisions: the war on poverty and community action -- Okra is a threat: the low-income cooperative movement -- OEO is finished: federal withdrawal and the return to states' rights -- To build something, where they are: the federation of southern cooperatives and rural economic development -- A world of despair: free enterprise and its failures -- Government cannot solve our problems: legacies of displacement -- Conclusion.

ISBN:

1469629305
9781469629308

OCLC:

(OCoLC)945730188

LCCN:

2016014539

Locations:

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