Homecoming: the story of African-American farmers

Preface: Of land and love

1. Taking root: The Civil War and Reconstruction

2. A second slavery: The Post-Reconstruction South

3. Strength in numbers: World War I and the peak of Black landownership

4. Lines in the sand: Washington, Du Bois, and the postwar boom of the early 1920's

5. The thickening shadows: Black migration to the North

6. Fly away home: surviving the Great Depression

7. Where the past leads: Black agricultural workers and the promise of Roosevelt's New Deal

8. The price of progress: World War II and the call for Southern change

9. Planting seeds: the Postwar boom

10. The end will not trouble you: Civil Rights in the South

Epilogue: Home at last (1980-present).