Reaping a greater harvest : African Americans, the extension service, and rural reform in Jim Crow Texas / Debra A. Reid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reid, Debra Ann, 1960-

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

Sam Rayburn series on rural life ; no. 14.

Sam Rayburn series on rural life ; no. 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Texas Agricultural Extension Service.

African American agriculturists--Texas.

African American agriculturists.

Agriculture and state--Texas.

Agriculture and state.

African Americans--Texas--History.

African Americans.

Rural extension--Texas.

Rural extension.

Rural development--Texas.

Rural development.

History.

Texas.

Physical Description:

xxix, 295 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2007]

Contents:

African Americans and rural reform in Texas, 1891-1914

Forming separate bureaucracies : the Negro Division of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, 1915-20

Segregated modernization : taking the message into African American fields and farm homes

Public reform in black and white : the maturation of a segregated division

Building segregated social welfare : Texas' Negro Division and Roosevelt's New Deal

Beyond the farm : cultivating new audiences and support systems at home and abroad

Separation despite civil rights

Measuring greater harvests.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-267) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

1585445711

9781585445714

OCLC:

70630322