This is an exemplary work of politically engaged scholarship that offers a wealth of insight into the thorny dynamics of race and immigration in the New South." —Ruth Milkman, author of L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the ...
This is an exemplary work of politically engaged scholarship that offers a wealth of insight into the thorny dynamics of race and immigration in the New South." —Ruth Milkman, author of L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the ...
In 1951, after Sam Vincent disappears while investigating a prison for violent African American convicts in Thebes, Mississippi, Earl Swagger finds himself confronting a town guarded by a private army of brutal, racist White thugs.
As evidenced by the title of the work, the focus is upon families who settled along the Tombigbee River, an area which today occupies all or part of the Alabama counties of Marion, Fayette, Lamar, Tuscaloosa, Greene, Pickens, and Sumter; ...
Machine generated contents note: -- Foreword / by H. Jack GeigerIntroduction -- From South Africa to Mississippi -- Community Organizing -- Delivering Health Care -- Environmental Factors -- The Farm Co-op -- Conflict and Change -- Epilogue ...
Answers to these and many other questions are given in this collection of vintage photographs and commentaries compiled and written by Rabbi and Mrs. Turitz.