H. C. RAY AND RACIAL POLITICS IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXTENSION SERVICE PROGRAM IN ARKANSAS, 1915-1929. |
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Zellar, Gary.
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1/1/98
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Journal
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Agricultural History
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72(2)p.429-445
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African American
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Recounts the work of H. C. Ray, the first African-American agent in the Arkansas Extension Service to develop a statewide extension program for African Americans during 1915-29.Subscribing to the rural uplift philosophy of Booker T. Washington and Tuskegee Institute, Ray promoted diversified scientific agriculture through traveling agents, farmer conferences,and eventually, a moveable school. Success was limited among independent African-American farm owners because of their poverty and among tenants because of the opposition of whitelandlords, although support for African-American extension to tenants increased as out-migration accelerated and threatened the plantation owners labor supply. The Mississippi River floodof 1927 provided an opportunity for additional influence when Ray s extension service handled the relief operation for African Americans.
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