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Author:

Reid, Debra Ann, 1960-

Title:

Reaping a greater harvest : African Americans, the extension service, and rural reform in Jim Crow Texas / Debra A. Reid.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Texas A&M University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xxix, 295 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Texas Agricultural Extension Service.
African American agriculturists--Texas.
Agriculture and state--Texas.
African Americans--Texas--History.
Rural extension--Texas.
Rural development--Texas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-267) and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Sam Rayburn series on rural life no. 14

ISBN:

1585445711 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781585445714 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)70630322

LCCN:

2006021742

Locations:

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