Two revolutions roiled the rural South after the mid-1960s: the political revolution wrought by the passage of Civil Rights legislation, and the ongoing economic revolution brought about by increasing agricultural mechanization.
Focusing on the plantation regions of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, Greta de Jong anal.
Political empowerment for black Southerners coincided with the transformation of southern agriculture and the displacement of thousands of former sharecroppers from the land.
Two revolutions roiled the rural South after the mid-1960s: the political revolution wrought by the passage of Civil Rights legislation, and the ongoing economic revolution brought about by increasing agricultural mechanization
