Reminiscences of Fay Bennet Watts : oral history, 1976.

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Reminiscences of Fay Bennet Watts : oral history, 1976.

Executive Secretary of National Sharecroppers ̀Fund, 1951; work with southern farmers, 1930s-1950s; National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor (NACFL), 1958; Helen Gahagan Douglas ̀interest in migrant workers; NACFLs̀ membership and activities: lobbies for protective legislation for farm workers, abolition of Public Law #78, 1966; NACFLs̀ disbandment, 1966; other farm labor organizations; attitudes towards womens̀ roles in social movements, 1950s versus 1970s.

Transcript: 42 leaves.

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