Planting Hope on Worn-Out Land: The History of the Tuskegee Land Utilization Study, Macon County, Alabama, 1935-1959 - Hardcover

Pasquill Jr., Robert G.

 
9781588382054: Planting Hope on Worn-Out Land: The History of the Tuskegee Land Utilization Study, Macon County, Alabama, 1935-1959

Synopsis

The Tuskegee Land Utilization Project is an important part of Macon County’s past in the Black Belt of Alabama. African-American sharecroppers and tenant farmers were barely surviving in the poorest of conditions on land so worn out, it could no longer support subsistence farming. This book tells the story of how the land was rehabilitated and became the Tuskegee National Forest, and about the four hundred families who were relocated to the small community of Prairie Farms by the Resettlement Administration.

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About the Author

ROBERT G. PASQUILL, JR. is a native of New Hampshire. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1980 with a BA in anthropology. He joined the United States Forest Service in 1981 as an archeologist, working on the Sumter and Francis Marion National Forests in South Carolina before coming to the National Forests in Alabama in 1986. He is currently the Heritage Program Manager (Forest Archeologist and Historian) for the National Forests in Alabama. His other books include Battery Warren and the Santee Light Artillery and The Civilian Conservation Corps in Alabama, A Great and Lasting Good.

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