Southern Tenant Farmers Union. The Green Rising, 1910-1977.

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Southern Tenant Farmers Union. The Green Rising, 1910-1977.

Consists of the papers of four men active in the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union: Harry Leland Mitchell, a founding member and first executive secretary of the union; Thomas H. Gibbins; Clyde L. Johnson, an organizer for the Southern Organizing Committee of the Farmers' Union and various other trade unions; and David S. Burgess, a minister active in organizing migrant workers. The collections contain correspondence, subject files, printed matter, manuscripts, autobiographies, oral histories, newspapers and newsletters, sermons, and reports which document each individual's career.

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