Thad Snow : a life of social reform in the Missouri bootheel / Bonnie Stepenoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stepenoff, Bonnie, 1949-

Series:

Missouri biography series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Snow, Thad, 1881-1954.

Snow, Thad.

Social reformers--Missouri--Biography.

Social reformers.

Farmers--Missouri--Biography.

Farmers.

Missouri.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 182 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2003]

Summary:

Thad Snow (1881-1955) was an eccentric farmer and writer who was best known for his involvement in Missouri's 1939 Sharecropper Protest -- a mass highway demonstration in which approximately eleven hundred demonstrators marched to two federal highways to illustrate the plight of the cotton laborers. Snow struggled to make sense of the changing world, and his answers to questions regarding race, social justice, the environment, and international war placed him at odds with many. In Thad Snow, Bonnie Stepenoff explores the world of Snow, providing a full portrait of him.

Contents:

1. Snow's Corner 9

2. The Big-Eye 23

3. Flood Culture 39

4. King Cotton 53

5. Out on Mr. Snow's Farm 71

6. The Great Roadside Demonstration 89

7. Bootheel Planter 115

8. Missouri Pacifist 126

9. Ozarks Retreat 138

10. From Missouri 155.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-174) and index.

ISBN:

0826214967

OCLC:

53006685