Table of Contents: African American life in the rural South, 1900-1950

Other Authors:	Hurt, R. Douglas.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2003]
Physical Description:	vi, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects:	African Americans -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century. African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 20th century. African American farmers -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century. Agriculture -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century. Sharecropping -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century. Southern States -- History -- 1865-1951. Southern States -- Race relations. Southern States -- Rural conditions.

Table of Contents:

"Lookin' for better all the time" : rural migration and urbanization in the South, 1900-1950 / Louis M. Kyriakoudes
"A crude and raw past" : work, folklife, and anti-agrarianism in twentieth-century African American autobiography / Ted Ownby
"Of the least and the most" : the African American rural church / Lois E. Myers and Rebecca Sharpless
Shifting boundaries : race relations in the rural Jim Crow South / Melissa Walker
African American rural culture, 1900-1950 / Valerie Grim
Benign public policies, malignant consequences, and the demise of African American agriculture / William P. Browne
"I have been through fire" : black agricultural extension agents and the politics of negotiation / Jeannie Whayne
Exit, voice, and loyalty : African American strategies for day-to-day existence/resistance in the early-twentieth-century rural South / Peter Coclanis and Bryant Simon.