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Poor but proud: Alabama's poor whites

Wayne Flynt
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page ix)
  • PART ONE | ORIGINS
  • Chapter 1. "Unknown and Forgotten Ancestors" (page 3)
  • Chapter 2. "A Poor Man's Fight" (page 36)
  • PART TWO | OCCUPATIONS
  • Chapter 3. "Looking for Something Better": Alabama's Farm Tenants (page 59)
  • Chapter 4. "A Sight to Gratify Any Philanthropist": Alabama's Textile Workers (page 92)
  • Chapter 5. "Dark as a Dungeon, Damp as a Dew": Alabama's Coal Miners (page 113)
  • Chapter 6. "A Man That's Lumbering as Long as Me Knows a Few Things": Alabama's Timber Workers (page 146)
  • Chapter 7. "Barefoot Man at the Gate": Iron Workers and Appalachian Farmers (page 157)
  • PART THREE | SOCIETY, CULTURE, AND POLITICS
  • Chapter 8. "We Ain't Low-Down": Poor White Society (page 173)
  • Chapter 9. "Out of the Dust": Poor Folks' Culture (page 211)
  • Chapter 10. "The Fight Is Not Social": The Politics of Poverty (page 243)
  • PART FOUR | DISRUPTION AND INTEGRATION
  • Chapter 11. "We Didn't Know the Difference": The Great Depression (page 281)
  • Chapter 12. "The Poor You Have with You Always": The Enduring Legacy (page 333)
  • Appendix 1. White Tenancy in Ten Selected Alabama Counties in 1880 (page 367)
  • Appendix 2. 1897 Populist Voting Patterns and Agricultural Indigence in 1880 (page 378)
  • Notes (page 380)
  • Bibliography (page 428)
  • Index (page 453)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
RKHS 88.3 (1990): 341-342 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23381739
NCHR 67.3 (1990): 368-369 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23521170
JAR 77.3 (1990): 1021 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2079050
FHQ 69.3 (1991): 386-388 http://www.jstor.org/stable/30147541
AHR 96.1 (1991): 267-268 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2164221
JSH 57.2 (1991): 366-367 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2210467
GHQ 74.1 (1990): 185-187 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40582130
AAAPSS 514 (1991): 190-191 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1047154
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Published: 2001
Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780817311506 (paper)
  • 9780817390518 (ebook)
  • 9780817304249 (hardcover)
Subject
  • American: General & Multiperiod
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