Georgia Farmers Strike The The American Agricultural Movement Vs Jimmy Carter

Author : Lee Lancaster
Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 : 9781540257376
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Georgia Farmers' Strike written by Lee Lancaster and published by History Press. This book was released on 2023-07-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1467154253
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Georgia Farmers' Strike, The: The American Agricultural Movement vs. Jimmy Carter written by Lee Lancaster and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Daniel Levitas
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312291051
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Terrorist Next Door written by Daniel Levitas and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-11-23 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a national expert on white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups, "The Terrorist Next Door" is the definitive history of America's far-right militia movement. 16-page photo insert.

Author : Immanuel Ness
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131747189X
Total Pages : 1750 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Social Movements written by Immanuel Ness and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 1750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1597145211
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Country 'Tis of Thee written by David Harris and published by Heyday.ORIM. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1635924553
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farmers Unite! written by Lindsay H. Metcalf and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jimmy Carter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780743211994
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Hour Before Daylight written by Jimmy Carter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-10-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jimmy Carter re-creates his boyhood on a Georgia farm.

Author : Gilbert C. Fite
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813150485
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cotton Fields No More written by Gilbert C. Fite and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Lindsay H. Metcalf
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 1684379083
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farmers Unite! written by Lindsay H. Metcalf and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The State of American Agriculture written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: