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Beyond forty acres and a mule : African American landowning families since Reconstruction / edited by Debra A. Reid and Evan P. Bennett ; foreword by Loren Schweninger.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American farmers--History.
- African American farmers.
- African Americans--Land tenure--History.
- African Americans.
- African American farmers--Economic conditions.
- African American farmers--Politics and government.
- Freed persons--United States--Economic conditions.
- Freed persons.
- African American farmers--Southern States--History.
- African Americans--Land tenure--Southern States--History.
- African American farmers--Southern States--Economic conditions.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Southern States--Race relations.
- Southern States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (369 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection chronicles the tumultuous history of landowning African American farmers from the end of the Civil War to today. Each essay provides a case study of people in one place at a particular time and the factors that affected their ability to acquire, secure, and protect their land. The contributors walk readers through a century and a half of African American agricultural history, from the strivings of black farm owners in the immediate post-emancipation period to the efforts of contemporary black farm owners to receive justice through the courts for decades of discrimination
- Contents:
- Introduction / Debra A. Reid
- Historiography and philosophy.
- The Jim Crow section of agricultural history / Adrienne Petty
- Farm acquisition and retention.
- Out of Mount Vernon's shadow : black landowners in George Washington's neighborhood, 1870-1910 / Scott E. Casper
- James E. Youngblood : race, family, and farm ownership in Jim Crow Texas / Keith J. Volanto
- Benjamin Hubert and the Association for the Advancement of Negro Country Life / Mark Schultz
- Agrarianism and black politics.
- Black populism : agrarian politics from the colored alliance to the people's party / Omar H. Ali
- "The Lazarus of American farmers": the politics of black agrarianism in the Jim Crow South, 1921-1938 / Jarod Roll
- Farm families at work.
- Land ownership and the color line: African American farmers in the heartland, 1870's-1920's / Debra A. Reid
- Of the quest of the golden leaf: black farmers and bright tobacco in the Piedmont South / Evan P. Bennett
- "Justifiable pride": negotiation and collaboration in Florida African American extension / Kelly A. Minor
- Legal activism and civil rights expansion.
- Black power in the Alabama black belt to the 1970's / Veronica L. Womack
- "You're just like mules, you don't know your own strength": rural South Carolina blacks and the emergence of the civil rights struggle / Carmen V. Harris
- Between forty acres and a class action lawsuit: black farmers, civil rights, and protest against the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1997-2010 / Valerie Grim
- Researching African American land and farm owners: a bibliographic essay / Debra A. Reid.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-4377-8
- 0-8130-4353-0
- OCLC:
- 811507125
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