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Author Grubbs, Donald H., 1936- author.

Title Cry from the cotton : the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union and the New Deal / by Donald H. Grubbs
Published Fayetteville, AR : University of Arkansas Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 218 pages)
Contents 1. The Crisis of the Plantation System -- 2. " ... By Increasing Agricultural Purchasing Power" -- 3. The Sharecroppers and the Split in AAA -- 4. Collective Bargaining or Public Relations? -- 5. Gardner Jackson to the Rescue -- 6. The Rediscovery of Slavery -- 7. The Coming of Farm Security -- 8. Into the CIO and Disaster
Summary A study of the biracial movement of sharecroppers who in the 1930s stirred the national conscience to their plight of poverty and servitude
Notes Originally published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1971
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-209) and index
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Subject Southern Tenant Farmers' Union -- History
SUBJECT Southern Tenant Farmers' Union fast
Subject Tenant farmers -- Southern States -- History
Sharecroppers -- Southern States -- History
Agricultural laborers -- Labor unions -- Southern States -- History
Cotton plantation workers -- Southern States -- History
New Deal, 1933-1939.
New Deal.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
New Deal, 1933-1939
Agricultural laborers -- Labor unions
Cotton plantation workers
Sharecroppers
Tenant farmers
Southern States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781610751155
1610751159