Inherit the land : Jim Crow meets Miss Maggie's will

Inherit the land : Jim Crow meets Miss Maggie's will /

"In the early twentieth century, two wealthy white sisters, cousins to a North Carolina governor, wrote identical wills that left their substantial homeplace to a black man and his daughter." "Maggie Ross, whose sister Sallie died in 1909, was the richest woman in Union County, North...

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Main Author: Stowe, Gene
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2006
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Ross, Maggie, > -1920 > Will.
Ross, Maggie, > -1920 > Family.
Ross family.
African Americans > Segregation > North Carolina > Union County > History > 20th century.
Inheritance and succession > Social aspects > North Carolina > Union County.
Racism against Black people > North Carolina > Union County > History > 20th century.
Racism > North Carolina > Union County > History > 20th century.
Union County (N.C.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Union County (N.C.) > Biography.
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