Remaking the Rural South: Interracialism, Christian Socialism, and Cooperative Farming in Jim Crow Mississippi

by Robert Ferguson

Book Overview

This is the first book-length study of Delta Cooperative Farm (1936-42) and its descendant, Providence Farm (1938-56). The two intentional communities drew on internationalist practices of cooperative communalism and pragmatically challenged Jim Crow segregation and plantation labor. In the winter of 1936, two dozen black and white ex-sharecropping families settled on some two thousand acres in the rural Mississippi Delta, one of the most insular...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820358800
• ISBN13: 9780820358802
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"