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Tyronza is one of the oldest cities within Poinsett County with its origins dating back to the late 19th century. In the 1930s, it was the site where the Southern Tenant Farmers movement started what became a national outcry against the abusive discrimination by wealthy land owners against the mostly African-American sharecroppers.
The Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU), later known as the National Farm Labor Union, the National Agricultural Workers Union, and the Agricultural and Allied Workers Union, was founded as a civil farmer's union to organize tenant farmers in the Southern United States. [1][2][3] Many such tenant farmer sharecroppers were Black descendants of ...
June 14, 1906. [1] Harry Leland Mitchell (June 14, 1906 – January 8, 1989) was an American union leader. He was a cofounder and leader of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) in 1934, and led its successor unions, for most of the next twenty-six years. He had been a sharecropper himself, and a socialist like his fellow instigator of the ...
Sharecroppers' Union. The Sharecroppers' Union, also known as SCU or Alabama Sharecroppers’ Union, was a trade union of predominantly African American tenant farmers (commonly referred to as sharecroppers) in the American South that operated from 1931 to 1936. Its aims were to improve wages and working conditions for sharecroppers.
Occupation (s) Poet, songwriter. Spouse. Ruth. John L. Handcox (1904–1992) was a Great Depression -era tenant farmer and union advocate from Arkansas renowned for his politically charged songs and poetry. Handcox is noted for playing a "vital role in bettering the lives of sharecroppers and energizing labor union organizers and members."
A side path on the left led to an old pasture, known as the “morning glory field,” where tenant farmers grew corn until the late 1990s. Determined beavers work as 'ecosystem engineers'
Congressional district. 1st. Website. www.poinsettcounty.us. Poinsett County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 22,965. [1] The county seat is Harrisburg. [2] Poinsett County is included in the Jonesboro–Paragould Combined Statistical Area.
Louise Boyle (February 17, 1910 – December 31, 2005) was an American photographer known for her images documenting the effects of the Great Depression on farm workers in the South, especially African Americans.