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You Can’t Eat Freedom: Southerners and Social Justice after the Civil Rights Movement

You Can’t Eat Freedom: Southerners and Social Justice after the Civil Rights Movement

Two revolutions roiled the rural South after the mid-1960s: the political revolution wrought by the passage of civil rights legislation, and the ongoing economic revolution brought about by increasing agricultural mechanization. Political empowerment for black southerners coincided with the transformation of southern agriculture and the displacement of thousands of former […]