The green rising: a supplement to the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union papers, 1910-1977 (inclusive), [microform].

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The green rising: a supplement to the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union papers, 1910-1977 (inclusive), [microform].

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The collection 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 contains correspondence, subject files, printed material, manuscripts, autobiographies, oral histories, newspapers and newsletters, sermons, and reports which document each individual's career.

17 reels.

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Johnson, Clyde, 1908-

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Gibbins, Thomas Henry

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Burgess, David S., 1917-

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Southern tenant farmers' union

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The Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, organized at Poinsett County, Ark., in 1934, was especially active in Arkansas, Missouri, and Texas. The Union spread into the southeastern states and to California, affiliating off and on with larger national labor federations, and maintaining headquarters at Memphis, Tenn., or, from 1948 to 1960, at Washington, D.C. It has become successively the National Agricultural Workers Union and the Agricultural and Allied Workers Union. From the descripti...

Mitchell, H. L. (Harry Leland), 1906-1989

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Union official. From the description of Reminiscences of H.L. Mitchell : oral history, 1957. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309734831 ...