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Poor But Proud (Alabama's Poor Whites) |
Object Name |
BOOK |
ID Number |
2012.75 |
Summary |
Perry Zarr Collection "Poor but proud" is an apt description of many white Alabamians through history. During the antebellum years, poor whites developed a distinctive culture on the periphery of the cotton belt. As herdsmen, subsistence farmers, mill workers, and miners they flourished in a society more renowned for its two class division of planters and slaves. After the Civil War, poor whites were fully integrated into a market economy as tenant farmers producing mainly cotton, as coal and ore miners, textile operatives, sawmill and timber workers, and as iron and steel workers. They earned a susbsistence wage or less; their status generally declined after 1865, and more than half the state's white farmers were tenants by as late as the 1930's. the New Deal era and the advent of World War II broke this long downward cycle and afforded new opportunities for poor whites. |
Accession number |
LI-17-0132 |
Title |
Poor But Proud (Alabama's Poor Whites) |
Author |
Wayne Flynt |
Subjects |
1. Unknown and Forgotten Ancestors 2. A Poor Man's Fight 3. Looking for Something Better: Alabama's Farm Tenants 4. A Sight to Gratify Any Philanthropist: Alabama's Textile Workers 5. Dark as a Dungeon, Damp as Dew: Alabama's Coal Miners 6. A Man That's Lumbering as Long as Me knows a Few Things: Alabama's Timber Workers 7. Barefood man at the Gate: Iron Workers and Appalachian Farmers 8. We Ain't Low-Down: Poor White Society 9. Out of the Dust: Poor Folks Culture 10. The Fight Is Not Social: The Politics of Poverty 11. We Didn't Know the Diffrence: The Great Depression 12. The Poor You Have with You Always: The Enduring Legacy 13. White Tenancy in Ten Selected Alabama Counties in 1880 14. 1879 Populist Voting patterns and Agricultural Indigence in 1880 |
Published Date |
1989 |
Physical Description |
Medium Blue Hard Back Book |