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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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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]
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 ...
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Location of Union County in Ohio. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Union County, Ohio. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Union County, Ohio, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which ...