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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 and the CIO". In Lynd, Staughton (ed.). "We are all leaders": the alternative unionism of the early 1930s. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. pp. 103– 116. ISBN 0252065476. OCLC 247133530; Ross Jr., James D. "I ain't got no home in this world": The Rise and Fall of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union in ...
Old U.S. Route 63 between Memphis Ave. and the Tyronza River 35°29′59″N 90°22′15″W / 35.4997°N 90.3707°W / 35.4997; -90.3707 ( Highway A-7, Tyronza Tyronza
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]
It met violent resistance from white planters, with union leaders and members attacked and some killed throughout its areas of organizing in Arkansas and Mississippi. The Southern Tenant Farmers Union Museum in Tyronza is operated by Arkansas State University.
This list of museums in Arkansas is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
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.
Most of the district's buildings were built between 1910 and 1930, the major period of Tyronza's growth, and are mostly typical commercial vernacular brick and masonry structures one and two stories in height. The oldest building in the district is the c. 1916 Bank of Tyronza building at 117 South Main.