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Author Gilbert, Charlene.

Title Homecoming : the story of African-American farmers / Charlene Gilbert and Quinn Eli.

Publication Info. Boston : Beacon Press, [2000]
©2000

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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  305.563 G37    Check Shelf
Description 193 pages, 31 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-175) and index.
Contents Preface: Of land and love --1. Taking root: The Civil War and Reconstruction --2. A second slavery: The Post-Reconstruction South --3. Strength in numbers: World War I and the peak of Black landownership --4. Lines in the sand: Washington, Du Bois, and the postwar boom of the early 1920's --5. The thickening shadows: Black migration to the North --6. Fly away home: surviving the Great Depression --7. Where the past leads: Black agricultural workers and the promise of Roosevelt's New Deal --8. The price of progress: World War II and the call for Southern change --9. Planting seeds: the Postwar boom --10. The end will not trouble you: Civil Rights in the South --Epilogue: Home at last (1980-present).
Subject Freed persons -- Southern States -- Economic conditions.
African American farmers -- Southern States -- Economic conditions.
African Americans -- Land tenure -- Southern States -- History.
Freed persons -- Southern States -- Social conditions.
African American farmers -- Southern States -- Social conditions.
Land tenure -- Southern States -- History.
Southern States -- Economic conditions.
Southern States -- Race relations.
Added Author Eli, Quinn.
Other Form: Online version: Gilbert, Charlene. Homecoming. Boston : Beacon Press, c2000 (OCoLC)606487717
ISBN 0807009628 hardcover alkaline paper
9780807009628 hardcover alkaline paper
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