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In fact, far from saving he lives of millions from hopeless desperation, a closer look reveals that it took away the livelihood of at least that many. Foley's work reveals that the government through paying off Texas landowner farmers to plow under cotton crops, resulted in the elevation of cotton prices as well as devastating the lives of those who didn't own land.
II. Illiteracy & No Written Contract = No Sharing of Government Monies:
In fact, historians note that the elevation of crop prices was something, which was desirable in the minds of the ruling parties of wealth. Furthermore, although having contracts for the season with the laborers, history reveals that many if not most landowners did once consider sharing the government monies with tenants much less make recompenses for broken contracts. There was no viable or practical recourse for the tenant and migratory farmers due the role that illiteracy played within the scheme of the day. Most of the tenant farmers,
Immigrant and migratory workers as well as sharecroppers, excepting only a few, did not know how to read or write. Therefore the results were seen in the lack of any real legal protection for the laborers due the fact that contracts between them and the landowners were more often than not, verbal or oral contract. Lack of proof as well as lack of resources left the farm laborers with few options of self-defense...
Had the different races among the farm laborers been cognitive enough to truly assess their plight they might have, through joining ranks, defeated the tactics of the wealthy landowners of that day. Sadly, the poor whites, Mexican immigrants and blacks could not see that there was a need to drop the axe against one another and turn toward battling the real enemy, the wealthy landowner. Neil Foley's book The White Scourge demonstrates the devastation created by President Roosevelt's "New Deal Agriculture Adjustment Act" and thus is the story of Jim Crow in Texas.
The result was approximately two million individuals leaving the South before the 1930's came to an end.
The agreement those landowners had with the tenants were usually oral agreements due to illiteracy among the farm laborers.
Bibliography
Foley, Neil (1997) "The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture." Berkeley University of California Press 1997. PP.xv, 326.
Jim Crow in Texas
Bibliography
Foley, Neil (1997) "The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture." Berkeley University of California Press 1997. PP.xv, 326.
Jim Crow in Texas
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