Remaking the Rural South: Interracialism, Christian Socialism, and Cooperative Farming in Jim Crow Mississippi
- ISBN-10
- 0820351792
- ISBN-13
- 9780820351797
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 234
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Author
- Robert Hunt Ferguson
Description
The first book-length study of Delta Cooperative Farm and Providence Farm, the two communities that drew on internationalist practices of cooperative communalism and pragmatically challenged Jim Crow segregation and plantation labor in the 1930s and beyond.
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