Leaving the Land: Tenant and Sharecropper Displacement in Texas during the New Deal

Social Science History

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 533-551

  Volanto, Keith J ^a  

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EID: 1542639516     PISSN: 01455532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0145553200017557     Document Type: Article

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