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Cry from the cotton : the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union and the New Deal / by Donald H. Grubbs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grubbs, Donald H., 1936- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Southern Tenant Farmers' Union--History.
- Southern Tenant Farmers' Union.
- Tenant farmers--Southern States--History.
- Tenant farmers.
- Sharecroppers--Southern States--History.
- Sharecroppers.
- Agricultural laborers--Labor unions--Southern States--History.
- Agricultural laborers.
- Cotton plantation workers--Southern States--History.
- Cotton plantation workers.
- New Deal, 1933-1939.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 218 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction and Acknowledgments
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1971.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-209) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61075-115-9
- OCLC:
- 1031338738
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