The Mechanical Cotton-Picker, Negro Migration, and the Integration Movement

2 understandings of the integration movement predominate within the larger society: (1) the more dominant is that recent changes are the result of a long-standing frustration which finally boiled over in the mid-50's; (2) expressed in an article by S. Wilhelm & E. Powell ('Who Needs th...

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Published in:Human organization 1966-12, Vol.25 (4), p.344-351
Main Authors: DILLINGHAM, HARRY C., SLY, DAVID F.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African Americans
Cotton
Crop economics
Crops
Emigration
Farm tractors
Integrate/Integrated/Integrates/ Integration/ Integrative
Machinery
Migration
Movement/Movements
Negro/Negroes
Plantations
Tenants
Workforce
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Summary:2 understandings of the integration movement predominate within the larger society: (1) the more dominant is that recent changes are the result of a long-standing frustration which finally boiled over in the mid-50's; (2) expressed in an article by S. Wilhelm & E. Powell ('Who Needs the Negro,' Trans-Action, 1964, 6, Sep-Oct, :3-6), is that the 'crisis is caused not so much by the transition from slavery to equality as by a change from an econ's of exploitation to an econ's of uselessness.' An attempt is made here to document the impact of technological change upon the Negro. Table I gives Loss of Negro Tenants in 15 Arkansas Counties, 1950-1959, by N of Mechanical CottonPickers in 1959; Table II gives Loss of White Tenants in 17 Arkansas Counties, 1950-1959, by N of Mechanical Cotton-Pickers in 1959. For the Negroes, the 'rank-order r (Spearman rho) is .74, p=
ISSN:0018-7259
1938-3525
DOI:10.17730/humo.25.4.r023287044538mq7