Reaping a Greater Harvest African Americans, the Extension Service, and Rural Reform in Jim Crow Texas (Volume 14) (Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Commerce) von DebraAnnReid, Dr. Debra A. Reid Hardcover, 328 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2007 von Texas A&M University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58544-571-4, ISBN: 1-58544-571-1
"Cooperative demonstration work began in Texas in 1903 as an effort to teach farmers new methods of crop cultivation and management. However, black farmers in Texas were excluded from demonstration work until the Smith-Lever Agricultural Extension Act in 1914. By World War I, the resulting Negro Division included a complicated bureaucracy of African American agents who reported to white officials, were supervised by black administrators, ..."
Seeking Inalienable Rights Texans and Their Quests for Justice (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University) von Debra A. Reid, DebraAnnReid Paperback, 222 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2009 von Texas A&M University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-60344-123-0, ISBN: 1-60344-123-9
"Seeking Inalienable Rights demonstrates that the history of Texans’ quests to secure inalienable rights and expand government-protected civil rights has been one of stops and starts, successes and failures, progress and retrenchment. Inside This Book: "Early Organizing in the Search for Equality African American Conventions in Late Nineteenth-Century Texas"-Alwyn Barr, Texas Tech University "Crucial Decade for Texas Labor: Railway Un ..."
Seeking Inalienable Rights(1st Edition) Texans and Their Quests for Justice (Volume 112) (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University) von DebraAnnReid, Dr. Debra A. Reid Hardcover, 224 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2009 von Texas A&M University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-60344-118-6, ISBN: 1-60344-118-2
" Seeking Inalienable Rights demonstrates that the history of Texans’ quests to secure inalienable rights and expand government-protected civil rights has been one of stops and starts, successes and failures, progress and retrenchment. Inside This Book: "Early Organizing in the Search for Equality African American Conventions in Late Nineteenth-Century Texas"-Alwyn Barr, Texas Tech University "Crucial Decade for Texas Labor: Railwa ..."
"Why should our museum accept and exhibit that tractor? Why do we need to keep those old seed samples or those plows? No one cares about farming anymore. This book provides the context that can help you respond to these conundrums in proactive ways based on local research that will link your history organization to compelling national (even international) stories. All history organizations, whether a living history farm or a historic hou ..."
Interpreting History Interpreting Agriculture at Museums and Historic Sites Vol. von DebraAnnReid Hardcover, 236 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2017 von Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-3010-1, ISBN: 1-4422-3010-X
"Why should our museum accept and exhibit that tractor? Why do we need to keep those old seed samples or those plows? No one cares about farming anymore. This book provides the context that can help you respond to these conundrums in proactive ways based on local research that will link your history organization to compelling national (even international) stories. All history organizations, whether a living history farm or a historic hou ..."
"After the stunned Lawson advised them not to demonstrate, the students told him
they only sought his advice and not his permission.29 The students then
successfully protested a Houston Wiengarten store before the sit-in spread and
forced negotiations with city ofllcials. Lawson subsequently helped students draft
a letter to consider a postponement settlement if city oflicials created a bi-racial
committee to study the desegregation ..."
Reaping a Greater Harvest African Americans, the Extension Service, and Rural Reform in Jim Crow Texas von DebraAnnReid 235 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2007 von Texas A&M University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-60344-505-4, ISBN: 1-60344-505-6
"Agents failed to report trials and tribulations that defined the experiences of most
rural blacks during the Great Depression. In combination with low prices and crop
reduction, agricultural mechanization made hand labor obsolete and contributed
to tenant displacement. Counties with the highest proportion of white
sharecroppers experienced the highest displacement rate. Historian Keith
Volanto argues that this occurred because land ..."
" This ground-breaking collection proves that there is still a great deal to learn about the lives of black southerners. The essays offer a counterpoint to the standard story that all African Americans in the rural South found themselves mired in poverty and dependency. Melissa Walker, author of "Southern Farmers and Their Stories" A remarkable achievement. The authors in this collection have retrieved African American farm owners from t ..."
Who's Who of the Bible Everything you need to know about everyone named in the Bible von Martin H. Manser , DebraReid 304 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2013 von Lion Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7459-5703-6, ISBN: 0-7459-5703-X