Download or read book Middle Georgia and the Approach of Modernity written by Fred R. van Hartesveldt and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-06-22 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:  By the eve of the 20th century, Middle Georgia was a rural region transitioning from the aftermath of the Reconstruction Era into the modern age. This collection of new essays describes the lives of the common people of the day. A grisly mass murder underscored issues of race, class and poverty. African Americans struggled for self-betterment against the rise of Jim Crow. Women striving to overcome gender barriers found a hero in a pioneering female pilot. The government worked to protect communities from the influenza pandemic of 1918. Fighting boll weevils and declining cotton prices, farmers diversified crops and developed a national pimento pepper industry.