Confronting Southern Poverty in the Great Depression : The Report on Economic Conditions of the South with Related Documents

Foreword iii Preface iv PART ONE Introduction: The Report in Historical Perspective 1(38) First Grapplings with Southern Poverty: Civil War to the Great Depression 2(5) The South Meets the Nation: The Depression and the New Deal 7(4) Southern Liberals, the New Deal, and the Creation of the Report 11(10) Release and Reception 21(5) The Failure to Follow Up 26(6) The Report in Modern Perspective 32(7) PART TWO The Document: Report on Economic Conditions of the South 39(42) PART THREE Related Pictures, Life Stories, Statistics, and Documents 81(80) Photographs 82(6) Personal: Life Stories from the Depression-Era South 88(1) ``You're Gonna Have Lace Curtains'': A White Tenant Family, North Carolina 88(10) Mary A. Hicks Willis S. Harrison ``Ain't Got No Screens'': A Black Tenant Family, Arkansas 98(3) Walter Rowland ``Old Man Dobbin and His Crowd'': White Cotton Mill Workers, North Carolina 101(18) Ida Moore Quantitative: Statistical Evidence from Odum's Southern Regions 118(1) Per Capita Personal Income, by Geographic Divisions and States, 1929 119(1) Farm Income, Five- and Ten-Year Average 120(1) Preliminary Estimate of Soil Impoverishment and Destruction by Erosion 121(1) Proportion of Gainfully Occupied, 1930, Among the General Population 10 Years and Over, Females 10 Years and Over, and Children 10--17 Years 122(2) Percent Illiteracy Ten Years of Age and Over, 1930 124(2) Average Gross Income per Farm per Year, 1924--1928 126(1) Percent Illiteracy 10 Years of Age and Over, 1930 126(1) Cotton Economy in the Mississippi Delta 127(2) Contemporary Documents Relating to the Report 128(1) Using the Report in the ``Purge'': Speech at Barnesville, Georgia, August 11, 1938 129(6) Franklin D. Roosevelt Two Editorials: From the Textile Bulletin and the Louisville Courier-Journal 135(4) Attack and Response: Hall's Comments and Mellett's Response 139(10) Fitzgerald Hall Lowell Mellett The Resolutions Committee, Southern Liberals Respond to the Report: The Southern Conference for Human Welfare, Birmingham, Alabama, November 20--23, 1938 149(12) APPENDIX Suggestions for Further Reading 161(4) Index 165