The Rise and Fall of the Southern Tenant Famers Union in Arkansas

The Rise and Fall of the Southern Tenant Famers Union in Arkansas
ISBN-10
1621903524
ISBN-13
9781621903529
Category
Business & Economics
Language
English
Published
2018-04-03
Publisher
Univ Tennessee Press
Author
James D. Ross

Description

"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"--

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