Beyond forty acres and a mule
Subtitle: African American landowning families since Reconstruction
By: edited by Debra A. Reid and Evan P. Bennett ; foreword by Loren Schweninger
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780813039862; 9780813060361
Subjects: African American farmers; Freedmen; Land tenure; Political conditions; Economic conditions; Race relations; African Americans; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Debra A. Reid; title: Historiography and philosophy.; title: The Jim Crow section of agricultural history / Adrienne Petty; title: Farm acquisition and retention.; title: Out of Mount Vernon's shadow : black landowners in George Washington's neighborhood, 1870-1910 / Scott E. Casper; title: James E. Youngblood : race, family, and farm ownership in Jim Crow Texas / Keith J. Volanto; title: Benjamin Hubert and the Association for the Advancement of Negro Country Life / Mark Schultz; title: Agrarianism and black politics.; title: Black populism : agrarian politics from the colored alliance to the people's party / Omar H. Ali; title: "The Lazarus of American farmers": the politics of black agrarianism in the Jim Crow South, 1921-1938 / Jarod Roll; title: Farm families at work.; title: Land ownership and the color line: African American farmers in the heartland, 1870s-1920s / Debra A. Reid; title: Of the quest of the golden leaf: black farmers and bright tobacco in the Piedmont South / Evan P. Bennett; title: "Justifiable pride": negotiation and collaboration in Florida African American extension / Kelly A. Minor; title: Legal activism and civil rights expansion.; title: Black power in the Alabama black belt to the 1970s / Veronica L. Womack; title: "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; title: 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; title: Researching African American land and farm owners: a bibliographic essay / Debra A. Reid.