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Description

1. 1 online resource (xxix, 295 p.) : ill., maps.

Series statement

1. Sam Rayburn series on rural life ; no. 14

Uniform title

1. Reaping a greater harvest (Online)

Alternative title

1. Reaping a greater harvest (Online)

Subject

1. Texas Agricultural Extension Service
2. African American agriculturists > Texas
3. Agriculture and state > Texas
4. African Americans > Texas > History
5. Rural extension > Texas
6. Rural development > Texas

Contents

1. African Americans and rural reform in Texas, 1891-1914 -- Forming separate bureaucracies : the Negro Division of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, 1915-20 -- Segregated modernization : taking the message into African American fields and farm homes -- Public reform in black and white : the maturation of a segregated division -- Building segregated social welfare : Texas' Negro Division and Roosevelt's New Deal -- Beyond the farm : cultivating new audiences and support systems at home and abroad -- Separation despite civil rights -- Measuring greater harvests.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-267) and index.

Access (note)

1. Access restricted to authorized users.

Author

1. Reid, Debra A., 1960-

Title

1. Reaping a greater harvest [electronic resource] : African Americans, the extension service, and rural reform in Jim Crow Texas / Debra A. Reid.

Imprint

1. College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2007.

Edition

1. 1st ed.

Series

1. Sam Rayburn series on rural life ; no. 14

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-267) and index.

Access

1. Access restricted to authorized users.

Connect to:

1. Available from home with a valid library card
2. Available onsite at NYPL

LCCN

1. 2006021742