TY  - BOOK
AU  - Biles,Roger
TI  - The South and the New DealRoger Biles
T2  - New perspectives on the South
SN  - 9780813157344
AV  - F215 .S688 1994
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - New Deal, 1933-1939
KW  - Southern States
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Preface to the Paperback Edition; 1. On the Eve of Depression; 2. Depression and Response, 1929-1933; 3. From Sharecropping to Agribusiness; 4. Relief and Employment; 5. Labor and the New Deal; 6. The New Deal and Race Relations; 7. Southern Politics; 8. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliographical Essay; Index; 2; b
N2  - When Franklin D. Roosevelt was sworn in as president, the South was unmistakably the most disadvantaged part of the nation. The region's economy was the weakest, its educational level the lowest, its politics the most rigid, and its laws and social mores the most racially slanted. Moreover, the region was prostrate from the effects of the Great Depression. Roosevelt's New Deal effected significant changes on the southern landscape, challenging many traditions and laying the foundations for subsequent alterations in the southern way of life. At the same time, firmly entrenched values and institu
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