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A History of Georgia (1991). Survey by scholars. Coulter, E. Merton. A Short History of Georgia (1933) Grant, Donald L. The Way It Was in the South: The Black Experience in Georgia 1993; London, Bonta Bullard. (1999) Georgia: The History of an American State Montgomery, Alabama: Clairmont Press ISBN 1-56733-994-8. A middle school textbook.
The Farmer's Last Frontier: Agriculture, 1860-1897 (1945) online, a standard scholarly history; Shannon, Fred A. American farmers' movements (1957) a brief survey with primary documents online; Tontz, Robert L. "Memberships of general farmers' organizations, United States, 1874-1960." Agricultural History 38.3 (1964): 143-156. online
At the beginning of Reconstruction, Georgia had over 460,000 freedmen. [1] In January 1865, in Savannah, William T. Sherman issued Special Field Orders, No. 15, authorizing federal authorities to confiscate abandoned plantation lands in the Sea Islands, whose owners had fled with the advance of his army, and redistribute them to former slaves.
Thomas Edward Watson (September 5, 1856 – September 26, 1922) was an American politician, attorney, newspaper editor, and writer from Georgia.In the 1890s Watson championed poor farmers as a leader of the Populist Party, articulating an agrarian political viewpoint while attacking business, bankers, railroads, Democratic President Grover Cleveland, and the Democratic Party.
The history of the California Fruit Growers Exchange (1925). online edition; Miner, Horace Mitchell. Culture and agriculture; an anthropological study of a corn belt county (1949) online edition; Nordin, Dennis S. and Scott, Roy V. From Prairie Farmer to Entrepreneur: The Transformation of Midwestern Agriculture. Indiana U. Press, 2005. 356 pp.
Middle Georgia community stalwart and Dickey Farms owner Robert L. “Bob” Dickey II died Wednesday afternoon. He was 94. The farmer was known for his agriculture advocacy, love of family and ...
There's a new resource available to help local farmers get a better understanding of their businesses. TEAM Tilley Leaders Program is an outreach program with Black and underserved farmers in ...
The reason these runoffs are even happening goes back to the 1960s during the Civil Rights Movement. For decades the state of Georgia used a county unit system to determine the winner of its ...