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English
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When, during the Great Depression, tenant farmers and sharecroppers were pushed off the land they had worked but never owned, many sought power in numbers by organizing unions. In 1934, seven black men and eleven white men organized the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Socialist Harry Leland Mitchell was one of those men. Mean Things Happening in This Land is his autobiographical account of SFTU struggles -- against poverty, New Deal agencies, communists,...
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Descended from African American slaves, Native Americans, and white slaveowners, John Handcox was born at one of the hardest times and places to be black in America. Over the first few decades of the twentieth century, he survived attempted lynchings, floods, droughts, and the ravages of the Great Depression to organize black and white farmers alike on behalf of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union. He also became one of the most beloved folk singers...
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Papers of the NAACP. Part 10 Peonage labor and the New Deal 1913-1939 volume reel 19, fr. 0289-0417
Publisher
University Publications of America
Pub. Date
[c1990]
Language
English
Description
Correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, press releases, clippings, reports, and articles documenting NAACP cooperation with the STFU in the late 1930's. Many of the materials are STFU press releases and information letters documenting the union's struggles on behalf of tenant farmers in the south.
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Publisher
University Publications of America
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
Correspondence, telegrams, press releases, and memoranda documenting the state of Arkansas' pursuit of Sam Bennett, organizer for the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, and the NAACP's fight to prevent his extradition from Illinois.