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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.
Southern Tenant Farmers Union founded. [36] 1934 (United States) Harlem, New York, Jobs-for-Negroes Boycott occurred. [36] 1934 (United States) Imperial Valley Farmworkers' Strike occurred. [36] 1934 (United States) The Electric Auto-Lite Strike. In Toledo, Ohio, [36] two strikers were killed and over two hundred wounded by National Guardsmen ...
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 ...
Latvian Farmers' Union, political party in Latvia; New Farmers' Union, political party in Latvia in the inter-war period; New Zealand Farmers Union, now known as Federated Farmers; Queensland Farmers' Union, political party of Australia; Southern Tenant Farmers Union, civil farmer's union in the Southern United States; Ulster Farmers' Union ...
Residents at Independence Towers and Quality Hill Towers have been withholding $60,000 in rent for more than 18 days.
Tenant farmer on his front porch, south of Muskogee, Oklahoma (1939). A tenant farmer is a person (farmer or farmworker) who resides on land owned by a landlord.Tenant farming is an agricultural production system in which landowners contribute their land and often a measure of operating capital and management, while tenant farmers contribute their labor along with at times varying amounts of ...