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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 ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio County, West Virginia. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [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.
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 ...
In 1936 Kester published Revolt Among the Sharecroppers, a short work prepared on behalf of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. It was republished in 1969 and 1997. In October 1934, Kester represented the NAACP in investigating the murder of Lola Cannady in Marianna, Florida, for which Claude Neal, a young African-American man, had been arrested.
Ohio County is a county located in the Northern Panhandle of the U.S. state of West Virginia, and forms part of the Wheeling metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census , the population was 42,425. [ 1 ]
Wheeling Historic District, also known as the Wheeling Central Business District, is a national historic district located at Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. The district includes 205 contributing buildings in the central business district of Wheeling. It includes the site of the original location of Fort Henry.
All of the following are located in Wheeling, Ohio County, WV: Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. WV-183, "Irwin-Brues House, 201 North Front Street", 7 photos, 8 data pages, 1 photo caption page; HABS No. WV-271, "174 Zane Street (House)", 10 photos, 4 data pages, 3 photo caption pages