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...that time, when the co-op was just getting started, Mrs. Hamer said that its goal was not only to provide a farm income for landless families, but also to serve as a social and political organizing center for the blacks of the Mississippi Delta...
Today the Untouchables remain the most backward group in a still backward land. India's literacy rate of 25% is shocking enough, but it drops to 10% among the Untouchables. More than one-third of the Untouchables are landless farm laborers toiling for 260 a day. Those who have fled to the cities, where they can enjoy urban anonymity, find caste still much in evidence. Though the government is supposed to reserve 12.5% of all its job openings for them, only 2% of New Delhi's top-echelon officials and 3% of its legions of clerks are harijans...
...first mass target was the "exploiting landlords." There were, in fact, few landlords of any size. Nevertheless, the order rumbled down from Hanoi: find the exploiters and execute them. Anywhere from 50,000 to 200,000 Vietnamese were executed?mostly village leaders who were replaced by heretofore landless peasants. As Honey points out: "By forcing the villagers to participate in the deaths of people they knew to be guiltless, Ho involved them in collective guilt. By giving authority to villagers who never expected it, he secured their cooperation...
...Times were not always so good for Johnny, fourth of the seven children born to Ray and Carrie Cash. From a three-room shack in Kingsland, Ark., the hard-pressed Cash family moved to Dyess, Ark., in 1935, when a New Deal colony opened up there. Like the other landless farmers who gathered in search of their American dream, they ended up with 20 acres, a house, barn, chicken coop, a mule, a cow and a plow. The work was hard, the income meager. But, insists Johnny, "I was never hungry a day in my life. Aw, sometimes at supper...
...enduring relevance of these values. In this regard, it is a work of optimism that avoids the sap of positive thinking and goes directly to its roots. As the essays reveal, these roots are inextricably bound up with Silone's own-with his youth among the landless peasants of the Abruzzi mountains, with his early religious training, with the earthquake that left him an orphan at 14, and with the Fascists, who killed his sole surviving brother. Many of these details appeared in Silone's contribution to The God That Failed (1949), a collection of confessional essays...