When dealing with southern blacks after emancipation, historians have traditionally focused on the plight of those freedmen who were unable to realize their aspirations of becoming landowners. The majority of blacks were forced into tenant farming which seriously limited their economic, political and social position in the South for years to come. In spite of the problems of white resistance to black landownership, a lack of credit sources, and white violence and racism, 25 percent of southern black farmers did acquire land by 1910. This study deals with one family of landowners in Limestone County, Alabama between 1865 and 1940. The acquisitions of the Bridgeforth family began with George Bridgeforth, an ex-slave, in the 1870s, and have co...
The purpose of this study was to chronicle and evaluate the historical progression of education for ...
Printed address by Cully Alton Cobb to the Conference of Rural Ministers at State College, Mississip...
The purpose of this study examines the roles of race, place, and economics in the American South. Th...
Shrewd agricultural decisions enabled some African-American farmers to own and keep their land for d...
This is a study of local black leadership in Alabama and Virginia in the 1880s. It is both an Intell...
iii, 22 p.African-Americans as a group went from owning almost no land in the United States after th...
African-Americans as a group went from owning almost no land in the United States after the Civil Wa...
Black farming families in post-Civil War North Carolina generated significant resources of cash and ...
This study analyzes the impact of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives on the process of politica...
253 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000.In 1898 the U.S. Department o...
This thesis examines the population and economy of farmers in Lawrence County, a county in northern ...
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was one of the most successful New Deal programs in the state ...
During the antebellum period, free African Americans living in the Southern United States were a thi...
In 1890, the Second Morrill Act, an amendment to the First Morrill Act, became law. The Second Morri...
Tenant farming is an agricultural system in which farmers cultivate crops or raise livestock on rent...
The purpose of this study was to chronicle and evaluate the historical progression of education for ...
Printed address by Cully Alton Cobb to the Conference of Rural Ministers at State College, Mississip...
The purpose of this study examines the roles of race, place, and economics in the American South. Th...
Shrewd agricultural decisions enabled some African-American farmers to own and keep their land for d...
This is a study of local black leadership in Alabama and Virginia in the 1880s. It is both an Intell...
iii, 22 p.African-Americans as a group went from owning almost no land in the United States after th...
African-Americans as a group went from owning almost no land in the United States after the Civil Wa...
Black farming families in post-Civil War North Carolina generated significant resources of cash and ...
This study analyzes the impact of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives on the process of politica...
253 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000.In 1898 the U.S. Department o...
This thesis examines the population and economy of farmers in Lawrence County, a county in northern ...
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was one of the most successful New Deal programs in the state ...
During the antebellum period, free African Americans living in the Southern United States were a thi...
In 1890, the Second Morrill Act, an amendment to the First Morrill Act, became law. The Second Morri...
Tenant farming is an agricultural system in which farmers cultivate crops or raise livestock on rent...
The purpose of this study was to chronicle and evaluate the historical progression of education for ...
Printed address by Cully Alton Cobb to the Conference of Rural Ministers at State College, Mississip...
The purpose of this study examines the roles of race, place, and economics in the American South. Th...