Submitted to the Governor's Commission on Farm Tenancy by the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union
Author | : Southern Tenant Farmers' Union |
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Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1936* |
Genre | : Arkansas |
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Author | : Southern Tenant Farmers' Union |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1936* |
Genre | : Arkansas |
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Author | : Donald Grubbs |
Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2000-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1557285225 |
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.
Author | : James D. Ross (Jr.) |
Publisher | : Univ Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781621903529 |
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.
Author | : Southern Tenant Farmers' Union |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Author | : Jerold S. Auerbach |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Farm tenancy |
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Author | : Southern Tenant Farmers' Union |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1938 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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Author | : Southern Tenant Farmers' Union |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1937-01-14 |
Genre | : Farm tenancy |
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