Mothers of the South : portraiture of the white tenant farm woman

Author(s)

• Hagood, Margaret Jarman
• Scott, Anne Firor
• Wolcott, Marion Post
• Lange, Dorothea

Bibliographic Information

Mothers of the South : portraiture of the white tenant farm woman

Margaret Jarman Hagood ; introduction by Anne Firor Scott ; photographs by Marion Post and Dorothea Lange

University Press of Virginia, 1996

• : pbk

Note

Originally published: 1939

This ed. with added introd. first published: New York : Norton, c1977, in series: The Norton library

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In 1937 Margaret Jarman Hagood visited 254 tenant houses in the Carolina Piedmont, Georgia and Alabama, talking with and listening to southern mothers. This text records not only the results of her work, but the voices, attitudes and expectations of the people interviewed.

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Details

• NCID: BA90152371
• ISBN:
  • 0813916968
• LCCN: 96024324
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Charlottesville [Va.] ; London
• Pages/Volumes: x, 252 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HQ1420
  • DC20 : 305.4/0975
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Women -- Southern States
  • LCSH : Southern States -- Rural conditions
  • LCSH : Sharecropping -- Southern States