Article: Poor but Proud: Alabama's Poor Whites.(Book Review)

By J. Wayne Flynt, Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1989 (paperback 2001). 469 pp.

The hardest task for a historian is to give a voice to those who created few, if any, documents--the poor. Wayne Flynt accepted this challenge, and in Poor but Proud: Alabama's Poor Whites he helps them to sing. Conducting the voices by skillfully blending melodic oral histories with the pounding bass of government documents, Flynt offers the most extensive study to date on the subject.

Early Alabama settlers found abundant land available for fields and open woods for livestock foraging, allowing these farmers the possibility of upward mobility. Land became ...

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