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Planting Hope on Worn-Out Land - Pasquill, Robert G
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This book describes the conditions of poor black farmers and sharecroppers who were starving du to the worn-out land in Macon County, Alabama, in the 1930s and traces the history of an innovative New Deal program established to reclaim the land and the people's lives. The Tuskegee Land Utilization Study converted much of the land into what is now the Tuskegee National Forest. In this volume, Pasquill assesses the project seven decades later and he interviews some of the original descendents of the Prairie Farms participants.

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Produktbeschreibung
This book describes the conditions of poor black farmers and sharecroppers who were starving du to the worn-out land in Macon County, Alabama, in the 1930s and traces the history of an innovative New Deal program established to reclaim the land and the people's lives. The Tuskegee Land Utilization Study converted much of the land into what is now the Tuskegee National Forest. In this volume, Pasquill assesses the project seven decades later and he interviews some of the original descendents of the Prairie Farms participants.
Autorenporträt
Robert G. Pasquill Jr. is a native of New Hampshire. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1980 with a BA in anthropology. He joined the United States Forest Service in 1981 as an archeologist, working on the Sumter and Francis Marion National Forests in South Carolina before coming to the National Forests in Alabama in 1986. He is currently the Heritage Program Manager (Forest Archeologist and Historian) for the National Forests in Alabama. His other books include Battery Warren and the Santee Light Artillery and The Civilian Conservation Corps in Alabama, A Great and Lasting Good.