CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- PART I 1876-1896 -- Chapter 1 Land and Labor in New South Countrysides -- Chapter 2 ''A White Man's Country'' -- Chapter 3 The Populist Challenge -- PART II 1897-1918 -- Chapter 4 Capital at Work, Capitalists at Play -- Chapter 5 Culture, Race, and Class in the Segregation Era -- Chapter 6 War's Challenge to Jim Crow Citizenship -- PART III 1919-1939 -- Chapter 7 Twilight in Cotton's Kingdom -- Chapter 8 ''Discord, dissension, and hatred'' -- Chapter 9 ''Uncle Sam is my shepherd'' -- Conclusion Deep South Histories -- Coda Endings -- APPENDIX Charts and Tables -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES -- ESSAY ON SOURCES -- INDEX.