Keith J Volanto
Biographic Data
| ID | 5883673 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keith J Volanto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keith J |
| FAMILY NAME | Volanto |
| SIGNATURE | VOLANTO K J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Collin College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
James D. Ross Jr. The Rise and Fall of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union in Arkansas
The story of the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union (STFU), the Depression-era biracial labor organization defeated by planter violence, mechanization, acreage reduction, and internal strife, has been told numerous times. Beginning with influential recollections passed down by STFU cofounder H. L. Mitchell during the 1960s and continued through scholarly treatments, most notably Donald H. Grubbs’s classic organizational study Cry from the Cotton: The…
Reaping a Greater Harvest: African Americans, the Extension Service, and Rural Reform in Jim Crow Texas
Book Review| April 01 2009 Reaping a Greater Harvest: African Americans, the Extension Service, and Rural Reform in Jim Crow Texas Reaping a Greater Harvest: African Americans, the Extension Service, and Rural Reform in Jim Crow Texas. Debra Reid. Keith Volanto Keith Volanto Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2009) 83 (2): 260–262. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-83.2.260 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sh…
Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal
In the early 1930s, cotton was produced in 223 of the 254 countries in Texas and was a central element in the state's economy. The Great Depression created a major distruption that threatened to destabilize the entire Lone Star State. Keith J. Volanto relates the story of the New Deal's efforts to aid Texas cotton farmers, specifically with the production-control policies introduced by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA). He explores…
The AAA Cotton Plow-Up Campaign in Arkansas
ON MARCH 4, 1933, FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT assumed the presidency and, thus responsibility for leading the nation through its darkest economic hour. The country was entering the fourth year of a severe depression that devastated all major sectors of the U.S. economy. Cotton farmers in Arkansas and elsewhere in the South had faced hard times for over ten years, beset by the post-World War One slump in prices and natural disasters. But bad went to worse …
Leaving the Land: Tenant and Sharecropper Displacement in Texas during the New Deal
Leaving the Land: Tenant and Sharecropper Displacement in Texas during the New Deal
The AAA Cotton Plow-Up Campaign in Arkansas
ON MARCH 4, 1933, FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT assumed the presidency and, thus responsibility for leading the nation through its darkest economic hour. The country was entering the fourth year of a severe depression that devastated all major sectors of the U.S. economy. Cotton farmers in Arkansas and elsewhere in the South had faced hard times for over ten years, beset by the post-World War One slump in prices and natural disasters. But bad went to worse …
Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal
In the early 1930s, cotton was produced in 223 of the 254 countries in Texas and was a central element in the state's economy. The Great Depression created a major distruption that threatened to destabilize the entire Lone Star State. Keith J. Volanto relates the story of the New Deal's efforts to aid Texas cotton farmers, specifically with the production-control policies introduced by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA). He explores…
Reaping a Greater Harvest: African Americans, the Extension Service, and Rural Reform in Jim Crow Texas
Book Review| April 01 2009 Reaping a Greater Harvest: African Americans, the Extension Service, and Rural Reform in Jim Crow Texas Reaping a Greater Harvest: African Americans, the Extension Service, and Rural Reform in Jim Crow Texas. Debra Reid. Keith Volanto Keith Volanto Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2009) 83 (2): 260–262. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-83.2.260 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sh…
James D. Ross Jr. The Rise and Fall of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union in Arkansas
The story of the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union (STFU), the Depression-era biracial labor organization defeated by planter violence, mechanization, acreage reduction, and internal strife, has been told numerous times. Beginning with influential recollections passed down by STFU cofounder H. L. Mitchell during the 1960s and continued through scholarly treatments, most notably Donald H. Grubbs’s classic organizational study Cry from the Cotton: The…
History (3 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (2 works) · Cuban History and Society (2 works) · History (2 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Race, History, and American Society (2 works) · Agricultural Economics and Policy (1 works) · Agronomy (1 works) · American History and Culture (1 works)