THAD SITTON, JAMES H. CONRAD. Freedom Colonies: Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow. (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture, number 15.) Assisted by RICHARD ORTON. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2005. Pp. 248. Cloth $50.00, paper $19.95.
KEITH J. VOLANTO. Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal. (Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, number 7.) College Station: Texas A&M University Press. 2005. Pp. xv, 194. $35.00.
