You Can’t Eat Freedom Southerners and Social Justice after the Civil Rights Movement / Greta de Jong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Jong, Greta, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Migration, Internal--United States--History--20th century.

Migration, Internal.

Agriculture--Economic aspects--Southern States.

Agriculture.

African Americans--Economic conditions.

African Americans.

African Americans--Social conditions--1964-1975.

Southern States--History--1951-.

Southern States.

Southern States--Economic conditions--1945-.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : he University of North Carolina Press, [2016]

Summary:

Focusing on the plantation regions of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, Greta de Jong analyses how social justice activists responded to mass unemployment by lobbying political leaders, initiating anti-poverty projects, and forming cooperative enterprises that fostered economic and political autonomy, efforts that encountered strong opposition from free market proponents who opposed government action.

Contents:

The man don't need me anymore: from free labor to displaced persons

This is home: black workers' responses to displacement and out-migration

They could make some decisions: the war on poverty and community action

Okra is a threat: the low-income cooperative movement

OEO is finished: federal withdrawal and the return to states' rights

To build something, where they are: the federation of southern cooperatives and rural economic development

A world of despair: free enterprise and its failures

Government cannot solve our problems: legacies of displacement

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908505-9-1

979-88-908506-0-7

1-4696-2931-3

1-4696-2932-1

OCLC:

957590612