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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 ...
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.
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]
Howard Kester (1904–1977) was an American preacher, organizer, and activist based in the South.He is noted for his work organizing the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) beginning in 1934. [1]
About two-thirds of sharecroppers were white, the rest black. Sharecroppers, the poorest of the poor, organized for better conditions. The racially integrated Southern Tenant Farmers Union made gains for sharecroppers in the 1930s. Sharecropping had diminished in the 1940s due to the Great Depression, farm mechanization, and other factors.
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 ...
Residents at Independence Towers and Quality Hill Towers have been withholding $60,000 in rent for more than 18 days.
Southern Tenant Farmers Union Photographs, 1937 and 1982 Repository: The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives in the ILR School at Cornell University is the Catherwood Library unit that collects, preserves, and makes accessible special collections documenting the history of the workplace and labor relations. www.ilr ...