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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 | |