Mama Learned Us to Work - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mama Learned Us to Work write by Lu Ann Jones. This book was released on 2002. Mama Learned Us to Work available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Farm women of the twentieth-century South have been portrayed as oppressed, worn out, and isolated. Lu Ann Jones tells quite a different story in Mama Learned Us to Work. Building upon evocative oral histories, she encourages us to understand these
Mama Learned Us to Work
Mama Learned Us to Work - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mama Learned Us to Work write by Lu Ann Jones. This book was released on 2003-10-16. Mama Learned Us to Work available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Farm women of the twentieth-century South have been portrayed as oppressed, worn out, and isolated. Lu Ann Jones tells quite a different story in Mama Learned Us to Work. Building upon evocative oral histories, she encourages us to understand these women as consumers, producers, and agents of economic and cultural change. As consumers, farm women bargained with peddlers at their backdoors. A key business for many farm women was the "butter and egg trade--small-scale dairying and raising chickens. Their earnings provided a crucial margin of economic safety for many families during the 1920s and 1930s and offered women some independence from their men folks. These innovative women showed that poultry production paid off and laid the foundation for the agribusiness poultry industry that emerged after World War II. Jones also examines the relationships between farm women and home demonstration agents and the effect of government-sponsored rural reform. She discusses the professional culture that developed among white agents as they reconciled new and old ideas about women's roles and shows that black agents, despite prejudice, linked their clients to valuable government resources and gave new meanings to traditions of self-help, mutual aid, and racial uplift.
Mama Learns to Drive
Mama Learns to Drive - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mama Learns to Drive write by Donald Davis. This book was released on 2005. Mama Learns to Drive available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents stories from the author's youth in 1950s North Carolina as well as stories describing the childhood of his mother, who came of age in the Smoky Mountains in the 1930s.
Standing Their Ground
Standing Their Ground - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Standing Their Ground write by Adrienne Monteith Petty. This book was released on 2017. Standing Their Ground available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The transformation of agriculture was one of the most far-reaching developments of the modern era. In analyzing how and why this change took place in the United States, scholars have most often focused on Midwestern family farmers, who experienced the change during the first half of the twentieth century, and southern sharecroppers, swept off the land by forces beyond their control. Departing from the conventional story, this book focuses on small farm owners in North Carolina from the post-Civil War era to the post-Civil Rights era. It reveals that the transformation was more protracted and more contested than historians have understood it to be. Even though the number of farm owners gradually declined over the course of the century, the desire to farm endured among landless farmers, who became landowners during key moments of opportunity. Moreover, this book departs from other studies by considering all farm owners as a single class, rejecting the widespread approach of segregating black farm owners. The violent and restrictive political culture of Jim Crow regime, far from only affecting black farmers, limited the ability of all farmers to resist changes in agriculture. By the 1970s, the vast reduction in the number of small farm owners had simultaneously destroyed a Southern yeomanry that had been the symbol of American democracy since the time of Thomas Jefferson, rolled back gains in landownership that families achieved during the first half century after the Civil War, and remade the rural South from an agrarian society to a site of global agribusiness.
North Carolina Women
North Carolina Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook North Carolina Women write by Michele Gillespie. This book was released on 2015-07-01. North Carolina Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By the twentieth century, North Carolina’s progressive streak had strengthened, thanks in large part to a growing number of women who engaged in and influenced state and national policies and politics. These women included Gertrude Weil who fought tirelessly for the Nineteenth Amendment, which extended suffrage to women, and founded the state chapter of the League of Women Voters once the amendment was ratified in 1920. Gladys Avery Tillett, an ardent Democrat and supporter of Roosevelt's New Deal, became a major presence in her party at both the state and national levels. Guion Griffis Johnson turned to volunteer work in the postwar years, becoming one of the state's most prominent female civic leaders. Through her excellent education, keen legal mind, and family prominence, Susie Sharp in 1949 became the first woman judge in North Carolina and in 1974 the first woman in the nation to be elected and serve as chief justice of a state supreme court. Throughout her life, the Reverend Dr. Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray charted a religious, literary, and political path to racial reconciliation on both a national stage and in North Carolina. This is the second of two volumes that together explore the diverse and changing patterns of North Carolina women's lives. The essays in this volume cover the period beginning with women born in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but who made their greatest contributions to the social, political, cultural, legal, and economic life of the state during the late progressive era through the late twentieth century.
