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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Incomplete - Inspected Title: GLEN ALLAN, MISSISSIPPI: CHANGE AND CONTINUITY IN A DELTA COMMUNITY, 1900 TO 1950 Abstract: Glen Allan, a village in the southern Mississippi Delta, served as a mercantile center for the cotton plantations surrounding it from 1900 to 1950. Within Glen Allan society were three classes before 1940: upper and middle-class whites and blacks. The culturally homogeneous upper-class planters dominated all areas of leadership in the Delta and often the entire state. But the merchant middle-class were quite diverse in ethnic background, including Jews, Italians, and Chinese. A fourth class entered Glen Allan in 1940 when the Farm Security Administration bought and divided Greenfield Plantation into small plots and sold them to "disadvantaged hill families." Glen Allan whites resented the "poor white" element and avoided contact with them. Black/white relationships were regulated by a rigid caste system which established the black "place" in society and the economy. Any breeches were dealt with by intimidation and occasional violence. |
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