The Changing Status of Negro Southerners

Lewis W. Jones has had a career of research and study of the Negro in the South, especially in the rural South, at Fisk University and Tuskegee Institute. He is the author of Shifts in the Negro Population of Alabama; The Cotton Community Changes, and has also written for the American Sociological Review and Rural Sociology. Editor of The Changing Status of the Negro in Southern Agriculture, he has recently co-authored Tuskegee, Alabama : Voting Rights and Economic Pressure in the series of Field Reports on Desegregation in the South, sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League of the B’nai B’rith.