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Foreword | |
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Preface | |
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Introduction: The Report in Historical Perspective | |
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First Grapplings with Southern Poverty: Civil War to the Great Depression | |
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The South Meets the Nation: The Depression and the New Deal | |
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Southern Liberals, the New Deal, and the Creation of the Report | |
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Release and Reception | |
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The Failure to Follow Up | |
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The Report in Modern Perspective | |
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The Document: Report on Economic Conditions of the South | |
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Related Pictures, Life Stories, Statistics, and Documents | |
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Photographs | |
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Personal: Life Stories from the Depression-Era South | |
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"Ain't Got No Screens": A Black Tenant Family, Arkansas | |
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"Old Man Dobbin and His Crowd": White Cotton Mill Workers, North Carolina | |
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Quantitative: Statistical Evidence from Odum's Southern Regions | |
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Per Capita Personal Income, by Geographic Divisions and States, 1929 | |
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Farm Income, Five- and Ten-Year Average | |
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Preliminary Estimate of Soil Impoverishment and Destruction by Erosion | |
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Proportion of Gainfully Occupied, 1930, Among the General Population 10 Years and Over, Females 10 Years and Over, and Children 10-17 Years | |
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Percent Illiteracy Ten Years of Age and Over, 1930 | |
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Average Gross Income per Farm per Year, 1924-1928 | |
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Percent Illiteracy 10 Years of Age and Over, 1930 | |
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Cotton Economy in the Mississippi Delta | |
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Contemporary Documents Relating to the Report | |
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Using the Report in the "Purge": Speech at Barnesville, Georgia, August 11, 1938 | |
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Two Editorials: From the Textile Bulletin and the Louisville Courier Journal | |
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Attack and Response: Hall's Comments and Mellett's Response | |
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The Resolutions Committee, Southern Liberals Respond to the Report: The Southern Conference for Human Welfare, Birmingham, Alabama, November 20-23, 1938 | |
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Appendix | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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Index | |