The Rural Negro

xvi, 265 pp. A sociological study of African Americans living and working in rural areas of the United States, mainly in the South. This book was published partly as a result of a three-year study undertaken by the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History beginning in 1926, designed to examine economic and social conditions for this group since the Civil War. Illustrated with dozens of black & white photographs. 19 tables, figures, and diagrams.