TY - BOOK AU - Brown,William Garrott ED - Project Muse. TI - The South at work: observations from 1904 T2 - Southern classics series SN - 9781611173765 AV - F215 .B8835 2014 U1 - 306.097509/034 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Columbia, South Carolina PB - The University of South Carolina Press KW - Southern States KW - Race relations KW - Social conditions KW - 1865-1945 KW - History KW - 1865-1951 KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Compliation of 20 articles previously published in various newspapers and other periodicals in 1904; Includes bibliographical references and index; Evidences of important changes in its ideals -- New energy is evident in Virginia -- Durham and the famous Duke Family -- Tolerance shown in North Carolina -- In the mill region of South Carolina -- Is the southern black man "making good"? -- Florida recovering from its depression -- Progress as noted in rural Aabama -- The present and the future of Birmingham -- Fiery Governor Vardaman of Mississippi -- Mississippi's land awaiting improvement -- What the levees are worth to Mississippi -- New Orleans and its bright future -- Texas, the land of mighty contrasts -- The awakening of Texas in agriculture -- On the vast plains of southern Texas -- Educational endowments in Texas -- Texas as a grain-growing state -- Unreliable labor responsible for its backwardness -- Rehabilitation is now almost complete UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781611173765/ ER -