The Dispossessed: America's Underclasses From The Civil War To The Present
By (author): "Jacqueline A. Jones"
Publish Date:
1992
ISBN046501674X
ISBN139780465016747
AsinThe Dispossessed: America's Underclasses From The Civil War To The Present
Original titleThe Dispossessed: America's Underclasses from the Civil War to the Present
This study of the roots of poverty in the USA explores the wrenching displacement of millions of rural Americans, both blacks and whites, beginning after the Civil War and following their great trek into the industrial centres and urban ghettos of the North.