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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilbert, Charlene.

Contributor:

Eli, Quinn.

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.

Freed persons--Southern States--Social conditions.

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

Land tenure--Southern States--History.

Land tenure.

Southern States--Economic conditions.

Southern States.

Southern States--Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston : Beacon Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"With journalist Quinn Eli, filmmaker Charlene Gilbert embarks on a search for her own family's story and uncovers the larger, untold history of African-American farmers. A companion book to the PBS documentary, Homecoming traces black ownership of land from the time of Reconstruction, when the failed promise of "forty acres and a mule" inspired so many black farmers to seek land of their own, to the recent Supreme Court decision to grant them restitution from the federal government for racist banking practices. As black farmers struggle to survive today, Homecoming pays tribute not only to the devastating losses they have suffered throughout the century but also to their enduring legacy of hope. A combination of personal memory and historical storytelling, Homecoming "celebrates the heroism and nobility of black farmers and provides clear evidence of the need for land reform in the United States" (Barbara Neely, author of Blanche Passes Go)."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

PREFACE :: Of Land and Love

INTRODUCTION

part one THE PROMISE LAND ::1850 -1899

TAKING ROOT ::The Civil War and Reconstruction

A SECOND SLAVERY ::The Post-Reconstruction South

part two THE CA LM BEFORE THE STORM 1900 -1928

STRENGTH IN NUMBE RS :: World War I and the Peak of Black Landownership

LINES IN THE SAND :: Washington, Du Bois, and the Postwar Boom of the Early ....1920s

part three HARVEST TIME ::1929 -1979

THE THICKENING SHADOWS ::Black Migration to the North

FLY AWAY HOME ::Surviving the Great Depression

WHERE THE PAST LEADS :: Black Agricultural Workers and the Promise of Roosevelt's New Deal

THE PRICE OF PROGRESS :: World War II and the Call for Southern Change

PLANTING SEEDS ::The Postwar Boom

THE END WILL NOT TROUBLE YOU ::Civil Rights in the South

EPILOGUE ::Home at Last (1980-Present)

LIST OF PLAT ES AND CREDITS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INDEX.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

OCLC:

49855186