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Review: Mccormick-International Harvester Company Collection Mccormick-International Harvester Company Collection By Lee Grady, Debra A. Reid
Review: Mccormick-International Harvester Company Collection Mccormick-International Harvester Company Collection By Lee Grady, Debra A. Reid
Debra A. Reid
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African Americans And Land Loss In Texas: Government Duplicity And Discrimination Based On Race And Class, Debra A. Reid
African Americans And Land Loss In Texas: Government Duplicity And Discrimination Based On Race And Class, Debra A. Reid
Debra A. Reid
"African American Farmers and Land Loss in Texas," surveys the ways that discrimination at the local, state, and national levels constrained minority farmers during the twentieth century. It considers the characteristics of small-scale farming that created liabilities for landowners regardless of race, including state and federal programs that favored commercial and agribusiness interests. In addition to economic challenges African American farmers had to negotiate racism in the Jim Crow South. The Texas Agricultural Extension Service, the state branch of the USDA's Extension Service, segregated in 1915. The "Negro" division gave black farmers access to information about USDA programs, but it …
Book Review: Debt And Dispossession: Farm Loss In America's Heartland By Kathryn Marie Dudley, Debra A. Reid
Book Review: Debt And Dispossession: Farm Loss In America's Heartland By Kathryn Marie Dudley, Debra A. Reid
Debra A. Reid
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Rural African Americans And Progressive Reform, Debra A. Reid
Rural African Americans And Progressive Reform, Debra A. Reid
Debra A. Reid
Histories of African Americans in the postbellum rural South tend to depict sharecroppers and tenants as victims of the crop lien system, racism, and the capitalization of agriculture. This paper concentrates instead on rural re? formers who celebrated life in the country and believed that comfortable homes, better schools, and wholesome residents could free blacks from bondage. Their agrarian ideology reflected Euro-American influences; most believed in the Jeffersonian rhetoric that linked land ownership to virtue and independence. Because they realized that the crop lien system made prop? erty acquisition an impossible dream for most blacks, they advocated diversification and sustainable …