Abstract
at Tuskegee Institute is concluding a followup investigation of Charles S. Johnson's classic study of southern rural blacks, entitled of the Plantation. The study was published in 1934. The area selected for study was Macon County, Alabama-one of the black belt counties which historically formed the region of cotton culture in the South. It is also the county in which Tuskegee Institute is located. The results of this study provide the base line data for our current restudy of the same area almost fifty years later. At the time of the original study, the plantation system, under which blacks had lived for generations, was seen as a sick and dying institution, unable to compete successfully with other cotton-raising areas in the world market. The blacks who were the subjects of the study were seen as folk people. Given these conceptualizations, Robert E. Park, in his introduction to Shadow of the Plantation, proposes a conceptual framework which guided the study:
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