Farish R. Betton papers, 1952-1963 [manuscript].

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Farish R. Betton papers, 1952-1963 [manuscript].

Letters received by Betton, vice president of the National Agricultural Workers Union at St. Louis, Mo., from Harry Leland Mitchell and others, concerning the Southern Tenant Farmers Union and its successor organizations, and related printed material.

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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...

Betton, Farish R.

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National Agricultural Workers' Union

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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 ...