Front cover image for Catfish dream : Ed Scott's fight for his family farm and racial justice in the Mississippi Delta

Catfish dream : Ed Scott's fight for his family farm and racial justice in the Mississippi Delta

Julian Rankin (Author)
Explores "the experiences, family, and struggles of Ed Scott Jr. (born in 1922), a prolific farmer in the Mississippi Delta and the first-ever nonwhite owner and operator of a catfish plant in the nation ... [who] provides an example for economic mobility and activism in a region of the country that is one of the nation's poorest and has one of the most drastic disparities in education and opportunity, a situation especially true for the Delta's vast African American population"--Page 4 of cover

eBook, English, 2018
The University of Georgia Press, Athens, 2018