Reaping a Greater Harvest: African Americans, the Extension Service, and Rural Reform in Jim Crow Texas

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vii CONTENTS List of Illustrations IX Series Editor’s Foreword XI Acknowledgments XIII Introduction XIX 1 African Americans and Rural Reform in Texas, 1891–1914 . . . . . . . . . 1 2 Forming Separate Bureaucracies: The Negro Division of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, 1915–20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 3 Segregated Modernization: Taking the Message into African American Fields and Farm Homes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 4 Public Reform in Black and White: The Maturation of a Segregated Division .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 5 Building Segregated Social Welfare: Texas’ Negro Division and Roosevelt’s New Deal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 6 Beyond the Farm: Cultivating New Audiences and Support Systems at Home and Abroad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 7 Separation Despite Civil Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Conclusion: Measuring Greater Harvests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Notes 195 Bibliographic Essay 257 Manuscript and Archival Sources 263 Index 269 ...