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Homecoming : the story of African-American farmers

Title
Homecoming : the story of African-American farmers / Charlene Gilbert and Quinn Eli.
Author
Gilbert, Charlene.
Publication
Boston : Beacon Press, ©2000.

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Additional Authors
Eli, Quinn.
Description
193 pages, 31 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  • "With journalist Quinn Eli, filmmaker Charlene Gilbert embarks on a search for her own family's story and uncovers the larger, untold history of African-American farmers. A companion book to the PBS documentary, Homecoming traces black ownership of land from the time of Reconstruction, when the failed promise of "forty acres and a mule" inspired so many black farmers to seek land of their own, to the recent Supreme Court decision to grant them restitution from the federal government for racist banking practices. As black farmers struggle to survive today, Homecoming pays tribute not only to the devastating losses they have suffered throughout the century but also to their enduring legacy of hope.
  • A combination of personal memory and historical storytelling, Homecoming "celebrates the heroism and nobility of black farmers and provides clear evidence of the need for land reform in the United States" (Barbara Neely, author of Blanche Passes Go)."--Jacket.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-175) and index.
Contents
Preface. Of land and love -- Taking root : the Civil War and reconstruction -- A second slavery : the post-reconstruction south -- Strength in numbers : World War I and the peak of Black landownership -- Lines in the sand : Washington, Du Bois, and the postwar boom of the early 1920's -- The thickening shadows : Black migration to the north -- Fly away home : surviving the Great Depression -- Where the past leads : Black agricultural workers and the promise of Roosevelt's New Deal -- The price of progress : World War II and the call for southern change -- Planting seeds : the postwar boom -- The end will not trouble you : Civil Rights in the south -- Epilogue. Home at last (1980-present).
ISBN
  • 9780807009628
  • 0807009628
  • 9780807009635
  • 0807009636
LCCN
00008995
OCLC
  • ocm43859354
  • 43859354
  • SCSB-1148587
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library