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- Land, Promise, and Peril
- Cambridge Studies in Stratification Economics: Economics and Social Identity
- Land, Promise, and Peril
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I The Family in an Intemperate Community, State, and Nation
- Part II Family Interiority and Economic Mobility Pathways
- 7 Perennial Sharecroppers
- 8 Quasi-Croppers and Family Interiority
- 9 The Mule-Renter’s Son
- 10 The Byrd Farmers
- 11 Contemporaries of the Second Sunflower Generation
- 12 Central Hills Family and Place in Struggle
- Part III Pathways toward Upward Economic Mobility
- Select Bibliography
- Index
12 - Central Hills Family and Place in Struggle
from Part II - Family Interiority and Economic Mobility Pathways
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 April 2023
- Land, Promise, and Peril
- Cambridge Studies in Stratification Economics: Economics and Social Identity
- Land, Promise, and Peril
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I The Family in an Intemperate Community, State, and Nation
- Part II Family Interiority and Economic Mobility Pathways
- 7 Perennial Sharecroppers
- 8 Quasi-Croppers and Family Interiority
- 9 The Mule-Renter’s Son
- 10 The Byrd Farmers
- 11 Contemporaries of the Second Sunflower Generation
- 12 Central Hills Family and Place in Struggle
- Part III Pathways toward Upward Economic Mobility
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Scott County produced its share of white lawyers and medical doctors during the period from 1857 to the 1950s but did not have black lawyers until well into the 1970s. After Meredith’s success at entering Ole Miss, two E.T. Hawkins High school graduates in the Forest Municipal School District applied to Ole Miss School of Law, and one, Constance Slaughter-Harvey, was the first African American woman to graduate from the law school in 1970. Her parents, W. L. Slaughter and Olivia Kelly Slaughter were college educated. Mr. Slaughter, a World War II veteran, and alderman was a school principal at North Scott Attendance Center, and Ms. Olivia Kelley Slaughter was a journalist. The other black and native-born Forest resident, Willie Lovelady, a first-year law student at Ole Miss in 1970, drowned mysteriously in the swimming pool at Ole Miss.
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- Land, Promise, and PerilRace and Stratification in the Rural South, pp. 222 - 250Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023