You Can’t Eat Freedom: Southerners and Social Justice after the Civil Rights Movement - Hardcover

Jong, Greta De

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1469629305 ISBN 13: 9781469629308

Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 2016

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Focusing on the Black Belt counties of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, de Jong traces the struggle for economic justice from the collapse of sharecropping through the civil rights movement to the present.--Journal of Social History A must read for scholars interested in southern history, civil rights history, or poor people's movements. . . . Challenges what we know about the post-1965 period and proves instructive as we confront twenty-first-century problems of poverty and racial injustice.--The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society One of the most important books about the black freedom struggle in a generation.--Journal of Southern History Links issues such as mass unemployment, poverty, and racial inequality to failures in policy in the late 20th century, when deindustrialization, automation and globalization eliminated many working-class jobs.--Nevada Today News

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Two revolutions roiled the rural South after the mid-1960s: the politicalrevolution wrought by the passage of civil rights legislation, and the ongoingeconomic revolution brought about by increasing agricultural mechanization.Political empowerment for black southerners coincided with thetransformation of southern agriculture and the displacement of thousandsof former sharecroppers from the land. Focusing on the plantation regionsof Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, Greta de Jong analyses how socialjustice activists responded to mass unemployment by lobbying political leaders,initiating antipoverty projects, and forming cooperative enterprises thatfostered economic and political autonomy, efforts that encountered strongopposition from free market proponents who opposed government action tosolve the crisis. Making clear the relationship between the civil rights movement andthe War on Poverty, this history of rural organising shows how responses tolabor displacement in the South shaped the experiences of other Americanswho were affected by mass layoffs in the late twentieth century, sheddinglight on a debate that continues to reverberate today.

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• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1469629305
• ISBN 13: 9781469629308
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304