The New South: A Chronicle of Social and Industrial EvolutionThompson, Holland
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The New South: A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution
Thompson, Holland
Southern States -- Economic conditions; Southern States -- History -- 1865-1951; Southern States -- Social conditions
Education, Blair Bill, 27; in South Carolina, 42; Populist attitude
toward, 46; negro schools, 57; agricultural colleges and experiment
stations, 75; county demonstrators, 75-77, 184; boys' and girls' clubs,
76, 78-81; General Education Board, 76-77, 183-184, 186, 189; college
students, 83; mills aid schools, 119; progress, 157 et seq.; country
schools, 164; academies, 164-165, 171; colleges, 165-166, 187; graded
schools, 166; taxation for, 170, 172, 185, 186; opposition to public
schools, 171-172; normal schools, 172; better buildings, 172; small
districts, 173; length of school term, 173, 184; funds for negro,
182-183; secondary schools, 186; preparation for college, 188;
bibliography, 240-241; see also Negroes.
Education, Bureau of, Report on Negro Education, 174, 178.
Elections, intimidation of negroes, 18-19; frauds, 19-20; North
threatens Federal control, 21; (1896), 44; (1900), 45-46; primaries, 47,
199; "Force Bill" (1890), 48.
Episcopal Church, 215.
F.
Farm Loan Act, 84.
Farmers' Alliance, 30, 33.
Farmers' Union of Louisiana, 34.
Fiction on the South, bibliography of, 241-242.
Field, Marshall, and Company own mills in North Carolina, 95.
Finance, problem in South, 22; repudiation of state debts, 22, 227-233;
economies of new state governments, 24-25; platform of National Alliance
and Knights of Labor on, 34; subtreasury plan, 34-35; merchants as
bankers, 61-65; crop lien, 62-63; Farm Loan Act, 84; see also Tariff,
Taxation.
Fisk University, 179.
Fleming, W. L., The Sequel of Appomattox, cited, 2 (note), 27 (note);
Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama, cited, 227 (note).
Florida, end of carpetbag rule in, 9; mines, 102; cigar industry, 104;
bonds as part of Peabody Fund, 167; migration to, 194; debt, 227.
Freedmen's Aid Societies, schools for negroes opened by, 173.
Freedmen's Bureau, 27.
French in Louisiana, 6.
Friends, Society of, influence in South, 16.
G.
Garland, A. H., of Arkansas, 28.
General Education Board, 76-77, 183-184, 186, 189.
Georgia, Democratic convention (1890), 37; Populist party (1892), 42;
cotton mills, 88, 97; knitting industry, 98; cottonseed oil industry,
100; fertilizer industry, 100; lynchings in, 155; school fund (1817),
158 (note); imports, 195; Catholics in, 214; repudiation of debt, 229.
Girls' canning clubs, 80.
Gordon, J. B., 13, 37.
Grady, H. W., uses expression "New South," 7-8; editor of Atlanta
Constitution, 223.
Grange movement, 29, 31-33.
Great War, negroes in knitting mills during, 126; migration of negroes
to North during, 132-133; negro women in Red Cross work, 149; and
capital in South, 196; South and, 201; and nationalism, 210-211.
Greenback movement, 25, 29-30.
H.
Hamilton, J. G. de R., Reconstruction in North Carolina, cited, 228
(note).
Hampton, Wade, 13, 41.
Hampton Institute, 174, 177, 178.
Hookworm disease, 73-74.
Howard University, 179.
Hughes, C. E., North Carolina vote for (1916), 57.
I.
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