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The Founding And Early History Of The Southern Tenant Farmers Union

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Author : Harry Leland Mitchell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973

The Founding And Early History Of The Southern Tenant Farmers Union written by Harry Leland Mitchell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with categories.

Oral History Of The Southern Tenant Farmers Union

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Author : Southern Rural Welfare Association
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973

Oral History Of The Southern Tenant Farmers Union written by Southern Rural Welfare Association and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with categories.

Roll The Union On

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Author : H. L. Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Charles Kerr
Release Date : 1987-01-01

Roll The Union On written by H. L. Mitchell and has been published by Charles Kerr this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-01-01 with Technology & Engineering categories.

Founded near Tyronza, Arkansas, in 1934 by 11 white and 7 black workers, within five years the STFU was organizing all across the South and counting its members in the tens of thousands. Reviving old IWW traditions of workers' solidarity and direct action as its members added many an innovation discovered in the course of new struggles, the STFU brought a luster all its own to the labor insurgency of the 1930s and 1940s. The first fully integrated multiracial union in the modern South, the STFU prefigured not only later farm-workers' unionization by also the civil rights agitation of the 1960s and the growing rank and file labor revolt of our own time. Here is the dramatic first-hand account of the origins, struggles, strikes, achievements, humor, songs and poems of the rural south, told through one of the founders of the union.

Cry From The Cotton

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Author : Donald Grubbs
language : en
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Release Date : 2000-07-01

Cry From The Cotton written by Donald Grubbs and has been published by University of Arkansas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-07-01 with History categories.

The Southern Tenant Farmers' Union was founded in eastern Arkansas in 1934 to protest the New Deal's enrichment of Southern cotton barons at the expense of suffering sharecroppers, both black and white. Their courageous struggle, in the face of determined and often violent resistance from their landlords, is the subject of this thorough study from Donald H. Grubbs, which was published to critical acclaim in 1971. Cry from the Cotton was the first full-scale look at the STFU and its leaders. It discloses that, although the union operated under noticeable socialist party sponsorship in its infancy, it drew much more upon the native Southern evangelical and populist traditions, much as the civil rights movement would do twenty-five years later. Grubbs convincingly demonstrates that while the STFU failed to gain immediate social justice for its members, it resulted in the formation of the Farm Security Administration, which even today continues to aid the rural poor, and it played a large part in forcing the formation of the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee, whose spotlight on management terrorism helped the CIO toward success. The volume stands as a classic on labor issues and class struggle and still echoes with the haunting plea of the dispossessed for equity.

Outstanding Projects Southern Tenant Farmers Union

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Author : Southern Tenant Farmers' Union
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1943

Outstanding Projects Southern Tenant Farmers Union written by Southern Tenant Farmers' Union and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1943 with Sharecroppers categories.

Typed copy of an informational work giving a short history of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU), its current projects, legal advocacy, and what government policies it is supporting. This "inter-racial organization" (page [1]) operated from 1934-1970 in the United States, a. Publication text written, at least in part, on "February 6, 1943" (page 3).

The Rise And Fall Of The Southern Tenant Farmers Union In Arkansas

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Author : James D. Ross (Jr.)
language : en
Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
Release Date : 2018

The Rise And Fall Of The Southern Tenant Farmers Union In Arkansas written by James D. Ross (Jr.) and has been published by Univ Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Business & Economics categories.

Founded in eastern Arkansas during the Great Depression, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) has long fascinated historians, who have emphasized its biracial membership and the socialist convictions of its leaders, while attributing its demise to external factors, such as the mechanization of agriculture, the repression of wealthy planters, and the indifference of New Dealers. However, as James Ross notes in this compelling revisionist history, such accounts have largely ignored the perspective of the actual sharecroppers and other tenant farmers who made up the union's rank and file. Drawing on a rich trove of letters that STFU members wrote to union leaders, government officials, and others, Ross shows that internal divisions were just as significant--if not more so--as outside causes in the union's ultimate failure. Most important, the STFU's fatal flaw was the yawning gap between the worldviews of its leadership and those of its members. Ross describes how, early on, STFU secretary H. L. Mitchell promoted the union as one involving many voices--sometimes in harmony, sometimes in discord--but later pushed a more simplified narrative of a few people doing most of the union's work. Struck by this significant change, Ross explores what the actual goals of the rank and file were and what union membership meant to them. "While the white leaders may have expressed a commitment to racial justice, white members often did not," he writes. "While the union's socialist and communist leaders may have hoped for cooperative land ownership, the members often did not." Above all, the poor farmers who made up the membership wanted their immediate needs for food and shelter met, and they wanted to own their own land and thus determine their own futures. Moreover, while the leadership often took its inspiration from Marx, the membership's worldview was shaped by fundamentalist, Pentecostal Christianity. In portraying such tensions and how they factored into the union's implosion, Ross not only offers a more nuanced view of the STFU, he also makes a powerful new contribution to our understanding of the Depression-era South.

Mean Things Happening In This Land

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Author : H. L. Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2014-10-22

Mean Things Happening In This Land written by H. L. Mitchell and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

A rare firsthand chronicle of one of the most racially progressive unions in twentieth-century America When, during the Great Depression, tenant farmers and sharecroppers were pushed off the land they had worked but never owned, many sought power in numbers by organizing unions. In 1934, seven black men and eleven white men organized the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Socialist Harry Leland Mitchell was one of those men. Mean Things Happening in This Land is his autobiographical account of SFTU struggles—against poverty, New Deal agencies, communists, and above all, the southern planter class—to achieve economic justice in the cotton fields. In addition to its original foreword, by renowned socialist intellectual Michael Harrington, this edition contains a new preface by Samuel Mitchell and the author’s posthumous corrections and additions.