Georgia Farmers Strike The The American Agricultural Movement Vs Jimmy Carter

Author : Lee Lancaster
Publisher : History Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1540257371

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Georgia Farmers' Strike by Lee Lancaster Pdf

Author Lee Lancaster retraces the movement of a remarkable time in our nation's agricultural history. In 1976, America sent a peanut farmer from Plains to Washington, D.C. Farmers throughout the nation, especially in Georgia, had high hopes for President Jimmy Carter, but those dreams vanished when he seemingly disregarded their problems--historic drought and embarrassing commodity prices. Peach State farmers took to the streets, slow rolling a tractorcade on I-75 toward Atlanta. The result was the largest ever farmer-led demonstration in the United States. The farmers pledged not to sell, plant or buy anything until "100% parity" was obtained. The farmers eventually steered their tractorcade to D.C., trying to prevent the foreclosure of dozens of farms with help from an armed group in Middle Georgia and a real estate tycoon from New York who would become the forty-fifth president.

Author : Lee Lancaster
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467154253

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Georgia Farmers' Strike, The: The American Agricultural Movement vs. Jimmy Carter by Lee Lancaster Pdf

Author Lee Lancaster retraces the movement of a remarkable time in our nation's agricultural history. In 1976, America sent a peanut farmer from Plains to Washington, D.C. Farmers throughout the nation, especially in Georgia, had high hopes for President Jimmy Carter, but those dreams vanished when he seemingly disregarded their problems--historic drought and embarrassing commodity prices. Peach State farmers took to the streets, slow rolling a tractorcade on I-75 toward Atlanta. The result was the largest ever farmer-led demonstration in the United States. The farmers pledged not to sell, plant or buy anything until "100% parity" was obtained. The farmers eventually steered their tractorcade to D.C., trying to prevent the foreclosure of dozens of farms with help from an armed group in Middle Georgia and a real estate tycoon from New York who would become the forty-fifth president.

Author : Immanuel Ness
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1750 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317471899

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Encyclopedia of American Social Movements by Immanuel Ness Pdf

This four-volume set examines every social movement in American history - from the great struggles for abolition, civil rights, and women's equality to the more specific quests for prohibition, consumer safety, unemployment insurance, and global justice.

Author : David Harris
Publisher : Heyday.ORIM
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781597145213

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My Country 'Tis of Thee by David Harris Pdf

A “wide-ranging and incisive anthology” of articles and essays by the eminent journalist and antiwar activist from the 1960s to the twenty-first century (Publishers Weekly). David Harris is a reporter, an American dissident, and, as these selected pieces reveal, a writer of great character and empathy. As an undergraduate, he gained recognition for his opposition to the Vietnam War and was imprisoned for two years when he refused to comply with the draft. Throughout his long career, his writing has championed outsiders, the downtrodden, and those who demand change. These eighteen pieces of long-form journalism, essays, and opinion writings remain startlingly relevant to the world we face today. This career-spanning collection follows Harris from his early days as a prominent leader of the resistance to the Vietnam War, through regular contributions to many publications, including Rolling Stone and the New York Times. Born in Fresno and elected student body president of Stanford University in 1966, Harris has always had an undeniably Californian point of view—he imagines the future with an open heart and mind and pursues stories out of genuine curiosity, embedding himself among striking farmworkers, marijuana growers, the homeless on LA’s skid row, and occasionally, redwood trees. Inspiring, clarifying, and fearless, his abiding and lucid patriotism insists that our country live up to its own ideals.

Author : Lindsay H. Metcalf
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781635924558

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Farmers Unite! by Lindsay H. Metcalf Pdf

In the late 1970s, grain prices had tanked, farm auction notices filled newspapers, and people had forgotten that food didn't grow in grocery stores. So, on February 5, 1979, thousands of tractors from all parts of the US flooded Washington, DC, in protest. Author Lindsay H. Metcalf, a journalist who grew up on a family farm, shares this rarely told story of grassroots perseverance and economic justice. In 1979, US farmers traveled to Washington, DC to protest unfair prices for their products. Farmers wanted fair prices for their products and demanded action from Congress. After police corralled the tractors on the National Mall, the farmers and their tractors stayed through a snowstorm and dug out the city. Americans were now convinced they needed farmers, but the law took longer. Boldly told and highlighted with stunning archival images, this is the story of the struggle and triumph of the American farmer that still resonates today.

Author : Gilbert C. Fite
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813150482

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Cotton Fields No More by Gilbert C. Fite Pdf

No general history of southern farming since the end of slavery has been published until now. For the first time, Gilbert C. Fite has drawn together the many threads that make up commercial agricultural development in the eleven states of the old Confederacy, to explain why agricultural change was so slow in the South, and then to show how the agents of change worked after 1933 to destroy the old and produce a new agriculture. Fite traces the decline and departure of King Cotton as the hard taskmaster of the region, and the replacement of cotton by a somewhat more democratically rewarding group of farm products: poultry, cattle, swine; soybeans; citrus and other fruits; vegetables; rice; dairy products; and forest products. He shows how such crop changes were related to other developments, such as the rise of a capital base in the South, mainly after World War II; technological innovation in farming equipment; and urbanization and regional population shifts. Based largely upon primary sources, Cotton Fields No More will become the standard work on post-Civil War agriculture in the South. It will be welcomed by students of the American South and of United States agriculture, economic, and social history.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : MINN:31951D002836357

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The State of American Agriculture by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Pdf

Author : Edward Lewis Schapsmeier,Frederick H. Schapsmeier
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1981-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015002885946

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Political Parties and Civic Action Groups by Edward Lewis Schapsmeier,Frederick H. Schapsmeier Pdf

"This new encyclopedia will be invaluable for political science and history reference collections. . . . Highly recommended." Library Journal

Author : Lindsay H. Metcalf
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781684379088

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Farmers Unite! by Lindsay H. Metcalf Pdf

In the late 1970s, grain prices had tanked, farm auction notices filled newspapers, and people had forgotten that food didn't grow in grocery stores. So, on February 5, 1979, thousands of tractors from all parts of the US flooded Washington, DC, in protest. Author Lindsay H. Metcalf, a journalist who grew up on a family farm, shares this rarely told story of grassroots perseverance and economic justice. In 1979, US farmers traveled to Washington, DC to protest unfair prices for their products. Farmers wanted fair prices for their products and demanded action from Congress. After police corralled the tractors on the National Mall, the farmers and their tractors stayed through a snowstorm and dug out the city. Americans were now convinced they needed farmers, but the law took longer. Boldly told and highlighted with stunning archival images, this is the story of the struggle and triumph of the American farmer that still resonates today.

Author : A. V. Krebs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSC:32106019991576

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The Corporate Reapers by A. V. Krebs Pdf

Author : Illinois Information Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Illinois
ISBN : UIUC:30112035018891

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Press Summary - Illinois Information Service by Illinois Information Service Pdf

Author : Jimmy Carter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001-10-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0743211995

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An Hour Before Daylight by Jimmy Carter Pdf

Jimmy Carter re-creates his boyhood on a Georgia farm.

Author : Hal Bernton,Scott Sklar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015009798458

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The Forbidden Fuel by Hal Bernton,Scott Sklar Pdf

Author : Richard S. Halsey
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015053787274

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The Citizen Action Encyclopedia by Richard S. Halsey Pdf

This work provides information on the activities and significance of the people, organizations and events that comprise the history of American citizen activism in the 20th century. It offers broad entries that put the debates on issues like abortion policy into balanced perspective.

Author : Eugene S. Schwartz
Publisher : Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Company
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Social Science
ISBN : WISC:89048106736

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Overskill by Eugene S. Schwartz Pdf