You Can’t Eat Freedom (eBook)

Southerners and Social Justice after the Civil Rights Movement

Greta De Jong (Autor)

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2016
320 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-2931-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Two revolutions roiled the rural South after the mid-1960s: the political revolution wrought by the passage of civil rights legislation, and the ongoing economic revolution brought about by increasing agricultural mechanization. Political empowerment for black southerners coincided with the transformation of southern agriculture and the displacement of thousands of former sharecroppers from the land. Focusing on the plantation regions of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, Greta de Jong analyzes how social justice activists responded to mass unemployment by lobbying political leaders, initiating antipoverty projects, and forming cooperative enterprises that fostered economic and political autonomy, efforts that encountered strong opposition from free market proponents who opposed government action to solve the crisis.Making clear the relationship between the civil rights movement and the War on Poverty, this history of rural organizing shows how responses to labor displacement in the South shaped the experiences of other Americans who were affected by mass layoffs in the late twentieth century, shedding light on a debate that continues to reverberate today.

Autor

Greta de Jong is professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.8.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 7 halftones, 3 maps, 2 tables, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Schlagworte: African American farmers in the South • agricultural mechanization in the • agricultural mechanization in the South • black freedom struggle in the rural South • black political activism in the post-civil rights era • Charles O. Prejean • Civil Rights Movement • cooperatives • cotton plantation regions of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi • deindustrialization • Emergency Land Fund • failures of free enterprise • Father A. J. McKnight • Federation of Southern Cooperatives • Globalization • intersections of race and class • Jimmy Carter economic policy • John Zippert • labor displacement • North Bolivar County Farm Cooperative • racism in the conservative movement • Richard Nixon economic policy • Ronald Reagan economic policy • rural economic policy in the late twentieth-century United States • social justice activism in the rural South • social welfare policy in the South • Southern Consumers Cooperative • southern cooperative movement • Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association • Tufts-Delta Health Center • War on Poverty in the rural South
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-2931-3 / 1469629313
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-2931-5 / 9781469629315