Remaking the Rural South: Interracialism, Christian Socialism, and Cooperative Farming in Jim Crow Mississippi (Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South Ser.)
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (728 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0820351792 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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His work has been published in Arkansas Review, Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Journal of Southern History, Southern Cultures, and North Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume 1 (Georgia). About the Author Robert Hunt Ferguson is an assistant professor of history at Western Carolina University.
Although the staff, volunteers, and residents were very much everyday peoplea mix of Christian socialists, political leftists, union organizers, and sharecroppersthe farms had the backing of such leading figures as philanthropist Sherwood Eddy, who purchased the land, and educator Charles Spurgeon Johnson and theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, who served as trustees. In the winter of 1936, two dozen black and white ex-sharecropping families settled on some two thousand acres in the rural Mississippi Delta, one of the most insular and oppressive regions in the nation. The two
Robert Hunt Ferguson is an assistant professor of history at Western Carolina University. His work has been published in Arkansas Review, Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Journal of Southern History, Southern Cultures, and North Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume 1 (Georgia).