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Description:On Friday 7/13/34, 11 white & 7 black men met in a schoolhouse near Tyronza, Arkansas, to form the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Thru its members' courage, the Union survived the attempts of planters & local authorities to stifle it at birth. By '36, local responses included arrest, false imprisonment, mass evictions, withheld relief payments, vigilante patrols, beatings & murder. The Union persisted, demonstrating the sharecroppers' determination & bringing their situation to national attention. H.L. Mitchell, born in Halls, TN, in '06, was a member of the original group. The events & circumstances surrounding his youth in the rural South are signposts for the direction his life was to take. They also provide a vivid encapsulation of the conditions of desperate poverty, powerlessness & commonplace racial violence out of which the rural labor movement was born. Altho he weaves his personal history into this memoir, it's less the story of a man's life than a history of the labor movement to which he has devoted himself for 50 years. In the course of his narrative, he sheds some new light on the Federal Government's role, sometimes creditable, often not, in rural labor affairs, & gives the history of the Union's eventual relationship with national labor unions. Affiliated with AFL as the National Farm Labor Union, it's geographically spread & diversified its membership over the last 30 years.Foreword by Michael HarringtonIntroductionGrowing Up in the Rural SouthFarming on SharesTwo Young Men of TyronzaRevolt in the Cotton FieldsTerror in ArkansasA Time of TrialStrike of '36 & Its AftermathVoices of the DisinheritedWomen of the STFUWe Had a DreamRaising Money to Help Poor FolksThe Strange Case of Claude C. WilliamsThe CIO in the CottonThe Missouri Highway SitdownRebuilding After the CIO DebacleTheir Lives Were on the LineDorothy & the UnionShirttail Union in the AFLWashington's Smallest LobbyThe Hank Hasiwar StoryErnesto Galarza: Man of FireRevolt in Rural LouisianaAFL-CIO & the Farm WorkersDown South AgainSharecroppers of the SeaSugarcane Land & Sister AnneA New CareerIn MemoriamNostalgia, Meet RealityA Selection of Songs & Verses from the MovementIndexWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mean Things Happening in This Land: The Life & Times of H.L. Mitchell, Cofounder of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. To get started finding Mean Things Happening in This Land: The Life & Times of H.L. Mitchell, Cofounder of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 372

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Publisher: Allanheld, Osmun & Company (Montclair, NJ)

Release: 1979

ISBN: 0916672255

Description: On Friday 7/13/34, 11 white & 7 black men met in a schoolhouse near Tyronza, Arkansas, to form the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Thru its members' courage, the Union survived the attempts of planters & local authorities to stifle it at birth. By '36, local responses included arrest, false imprisonment, mass evictions, withheld relief payments, vigilante patrols, beatings & murder. The Union persisted, demonstrating the sharecroppers' determination & bringing their situation to national attention. H.L. Mitchell, born in Halls, TN, in '06, was a member of the original group. The events & circumstances surrounding his youth in the rural South are signposts for the direction his life was to take. They also provide a vivid encapsulation of the conditions of desperate poverty, powerlessness & commonplace racial violence out of which the rural labor movement was born. Altho he weaves his personal history into this memoir, it's less the story of a man's life than a history of the labor movement to which he has devoted himself for 50 years. In the course of his narrative, he sheds some new light on the Federal Government's role, sometimes creditable, often not, in rural labor affairs, & gives the history of the Union's eventual relationship with national labor unions. Affiliated with AFL as the National Farm Labor Union, it's geographically spread & diversified its membership over the last 30 years.Foreword by Michael HarringtonIntroductionGrowing Up in the Rural SouthFarming on SharesTwo Young Men of TyronzaRevolt in the Cotton FieldsTerror in ArkansasA Time of TrialStrike of '36 & Its AftermathVoices of the DisinheritedWomen of the STFUWe Had a DreamRaising Money to Help Poor FolksThe Strange Case of Claude C. WilliamsThe CIO in the CottonThe Missouri Highway SitdownRebuilding After the CIO DebacleTheir Lives Were on the LineDorothy & the UnionShirttail Union in the AFLWashington's Smallest LobbyThe Hank Hasiwar StoryErnesto Galarza: Man of FireRevolt in Rural LouisianaAFL-CIO & the Farm WorkersDown South AgainSharecroppers of the SeaSugarcane Land & Sister AnneA New CareerIn MemoriamNostalgia, Meet RealityA Selection of Songs & Verses from the MovementIndexWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mean Things Happening in This Land: The Life & Times of H.L. Mitchell, Cofounder of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. To get started finding Mean Things Happening in This Land: The Life & Times of H.L. Mitchell, Cofounder of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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