Rebuilding the Rural Southern Community

Rebuilding the Rural Southern Community
Author: Mary S. Hoffschwelle
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1998
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781572330214

In this book, Mary Hoffschwelle shines a much-needed light on the efforts of rural reformers. She focuses on Tennessee because its varied geography and the large number of rural reform programs it hosted make it a particularly rich subject for study. Also, the state typified the burdens of poverty and racial division that characterized the South as a whole, and, as the author shows, such problems attracted considerable attention from reformers.