| 1. The Mechanical Cotton Picker (3-7) October 1944
2. Sharecropping (7-21)
| The Work (7-8) Ruby's Family
History (9)
The Delta (9-11)
The Institution of Segregation (1875-90)
(11-14)
Cotton Crash (1920) (15)
The Lure of Chicago (16)
Plantation Economy (17-20) |
3. Ruby's Story from 1917-1938 (21-24)
4. Racist Attitudes about Sharecroppers (24-28)
5. Sociological Studies of the Sharecropper Family (28-38)
6. Ruby's Clarksdale Family Disintegrates (1938-44)
7. To Move to Chicago? (40-46)
| George Hicks Bennie Gooden
Aaron Henry
Booker Washington's strategy
W.E.B. DuBois' strategy |
8. White Efforts to Block Emigration End (1940-46)
(47-52)
| The Decision to Automate David Cohn's
prediction (1947) (51)
Richard Wright's warning (1941) (52) |
9. Ruby Moves to Chicago (1946) (52-53)
10. Uless Carter Moves to Chicago (1942) (53-58)
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