Reaping a Greater Harvest
Subtitle: African Americans, the Extension Service, and Rural Reform in Jim Crow Texas (Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life)
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: March 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781585445714
Subjects: Agriculture & Farming; American history: from c 1900 -; Black studies; Ethnic Issues; History: American; Texas; Agriculture - General; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; History; United States - General; African American agriculturists; African Americans; Agriculture and state
Description: "Historians of race, gender, and class will join agricultural historians in valuing this careful examination of an understudied development in a corner of the Jim Crow South. Photographs taken by agents as well as others commissioned by the USDA add a dramatic visual record of the challenges and successes of employees and constituents of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service's Negro Division."--BOOK JACKET.