De Jong, Greta,

You can't eat freedom southerners and social justice after the Civil Rights Movement / [electronic resource] : Greta de Jong. - Chapel Hill : he University of North Carolina Press, [2016] - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Migration, Internal--History--United States--20th century.
Agriculture--Economic aspects--Southern States.
African Americans--Economic conditions.
African Americans--Social conditions--1964-1975.


Southern States--History--1951-
Southern States--Economic conditions--1945-


Electronic books.

HC107.A13 / D426 2016

331.6/396073076