Middle Georgia And The Approach Of Modernity: Essays On Race, Culture And Daily Life, 1885-1945

By eve of the 20th century, Middle Georgia was a rural region transitioning from the aftermath of the Reconstruction Era into the modern age. This collection of new essays describes the lives of the common people of the day. A grisly mass murder underscored issues of race, class and poverty. African Americans struggled for self-betterment against the rise of Jim Crow. Women striving to overcome gender barriers found a hero in a pioneering Georgian female pilot. The government worked to protect communities from the influenza pandemic of 1918. Fighting boll weevils and declining cotton prices, farmers diversified crops and developed of a national pimento pepper industry.

• | Author: Fred R. van Hartesveldt, Fred R. Van Hartesveldt
• | Publisher: McFarland & Company
• | Publication Date: Aug 07, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 195 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Biography & Autobiography
• | ISBN-10: 1476666903
• | ISBN-13: 9781476666907