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Manthorne, Jason. "The View from the Cotton: Reconsidering the Southern Tenant Farmers Union." Agricultural History, 84, 1 (2010), pp. 20–45 JSTOR 40607621; Mitchell, H. L. (Winter 1973). "The Founding and Early History of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union". The Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 32 (4): 342– 369. doi:10.2307/40027642. JSTOR ...
These groups were often formed in response to the failure of mainstream political and social institutions to address the needs of African Americans. For example, the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union (STFU), which was founded in Arkansas in 1934, brought together black and white sharecroppers to advocate for their rights and economic interests. [14]
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.
Two of Handcox's songs are used as the titles of books by the co-founder of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, H. L. Mitchell: Mitchell's autobiography, Mean Things Happening In This Land (which includes three of Handcox's song lyrics in an appendix), [7] and Roll the Union On: A Pictorial History of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union. [8]
Owen Whitfield (October 14, 1891 - August 1965) [1] was a preacher and leader of the 1939 Missouri Sharecropper Roadside Demonstration, where both black and white homeless sharecropping families camped out on the side of the road as a means of getting the government's attention on the vast poverty and injustice of tenants. [2] He was also a ...
Greater Columbus will see its first Del Webb retirement community, with 712 homes built near the U.S. Routes 33/42 interchange in Jerome Township in Union County. The patio homes are geared toward ...
DeSoto County Co-op in Hernando, a sharecroppers' union, 1954. During the Great Depression, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union was organized in 1934. It was open to both black and white sharecroppers and worked to gain better deals and fair accounting from local white landowners. Whites in DeSoto County resisted the effort.
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