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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilbert, Charlene.

Eli, Quinn, author.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freed persons--Southern States--Economic conditions.

Freed persons.

African American farmers--Southern States--Economic conditions.

African American farmers.

African Americans--Land tenure--Southern States--History.

African Americans.

African Americans--Land tenure.

Land tenure.

History.

Social conditions.

Economic conditions.

Southern States.

Freed persons--Southern States--Social conditions.

African American farmers--Southern States--Social conditions.

Southern States--Economic conditions.

Land tenure--Southern States--History.

Southern States--Race relations.

Race relations.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 193 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 31 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Beacon Press, [2000].

Summary:

This beautifully illustrated history of African-American farmers is a requiem for a way of life that has almost disappeared. A companion book to the PBC documentary, "Homecoming" pays tribute to the black farmers who worked their own land and their struggle to survive from the Reconstruction through today. 30 photos.

Contents:

Part One. The Promise of Land [1850-1899]. 1. Taking Root: The Civil War and Reconstruction; 2. A Second Slavery: The Post-Reconstruction South

Part Two. The Calm Before the Storm [1900-1928]. 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 1920s

Part Three. Harvest Time [1929-1979]. 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).

Notes:

"Based on the film 'Homecoming' produced for the Independent Television Service with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting."

"Jacket photograph: Dorothea Lange."

"See it on PBS"--Dustjacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-175) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0807009628

OCLC:

43859354