Cry from the Cotton: the Southern Tenent Farmers' Union and the New Deal (p)
- ISBN-10
- 1610751159
- ISBN-13
- 9781610751155
- Category
- Agricultural laborers
- Pages
- 218
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1971
- Publisher
- University of Arkansas Press
- Author
- Donald H. Grubbs
Description
A study of the biracial movement of sharecroppers who in the 1930s stirred the national conscience to their plight of poverty and servitude.
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- 2000-07-01
- 237 pages
- Paperback
- University of Arkansas Press
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