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You can't eat freedom : southerners and social justice after the Civil Rights Movement

Greta De Jong (Author)
Focusing on the plantation regions of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, Greta de Jong analyzes how social justice activists responded to mass unemployment by lobbying political leaders, initiating anti-poverty projects, and forming cooperative enterprises that fostered economic and political autonomy, efforts that encountered strong opposition from free market proponents who opposed government action

eBook, English, 2016
The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 2016