“Atmospheric Chamber” for Flight Examinations

The Cotton Plantation South since the Civil War

“…Its agribusiness complex, which in cluded a cotton ginnery and a "cradle-to-the-grave" store built in 1908 at the apex of the New South era and operated until 1992, dominated the town of Concord, located a few miles south of the Atlanta's Hartsfield Interna tional Airport. 55 Whereas an important diversified socioeconomic structure that included the state capital and university, factories, and regional cities developed within the lower Georgia Piedmont, beyond its agriculture and a few unique cultural attributes, the Yazoo Delta was never a prominent region. The Delta was the heart of Dixie in a locational sense but not in cultural or economic ones.…”

“…He went to sleep ... with a new determination to stir the earth and cultivate plants of cotton." 55 Because few plantations on the lower Georgia Piedmont made the tran- Washington, Georgia, in 1966. The company remained in business until 1970. The agribusiness complex of which the ginnery building was once a part belonged to the Southern Cotton Oil Company at the time of its heyday in 1917 (see map 2.4.)…”

“…There are few facts so fundamental to our whole economic problem of today. 55 Paradoxically, after the Second World War the displacement of tenants from the land by mechanization and the flight of blacks into growing ghettos of the nation's metropolises continued with little notice by the media or the public until the confrontational phase of the civil rights movement in the 1960s (figs. 4.14, 4.15).…”

“…In Greene County,Georgia,85 of the 211 black landowners in 1934 had less than 20 acres. 55 The third characteristic of land owned by blacks was that it frequently had undesirable physical traits. The landholdings had infe rior soils or were hilly and badly eroded or poorly drained.…”

“…"After 4 years of hard work" investigating the geography of voter discrimination in the South, John Doar concluded, "We had underestimated the size of the problem." 55 In 1958 the Justice Department selected Te rrell County, Georgia, a rural county in the state's Inner Coastal Plain plantation region, for the first voting rights court suit. Less than 1 percent of Te rrell's 5,036 eligible blacks were registered, compared with 83 percent of the eligible whites.…”