Table of Contents:
  • The man don't need me anymore: from free labor to displaced persons
  • This is home: black workers' responses to displacement and out-migration
  • They could make some decisions: the war on poverty and community action
  • Okra is a threat: the low-income cooperative movement
  • OEO is finished: federal withdrawal and the return to states' rights
  • To build something, where they are: the federation of southern cooperatives and rural economic development
  • A world of despair: free enterprise and its failures
  • Government cannot solve our problems: legacies of displacement
  • Conclusion.