During the first half of the twentieth century, degradation,
poverty, and hopelessness were commonplace for African Americans
who lived in the South's countryside, either on farms or in rural
communities. Many southern blacks sought relief from these
conditions by migrating to urban centers. Many others, however,
continued to live in rural areas. Scholars of African American
rural history in the South have been concerned primarily with the
experience of blacks as sharecroppers, tenant farmers, textile
workers, and miners. Less attention has been given to other aspects
of the rural African American experience during the early twentieth
century."African American Life in the Rural South, 1900-1950"
provides important new information about African American culture,
social life, and religion, as well as economics, federal policy,
migration, and civil rights. The essays particularly emphasize the
efforts of African Americans to negotiate the white world in the
southern countryside.Filling a void in southern studies, this
outstanding collection provides a substantive overview of the
subject. Scholars, students, and teachers of African American,
southern, agricultural, and rural history will find this work
invaluable.
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