Southern Tenant Farmers' Union papers, 1934-1970.

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Southern Tenant Farmers' Union papers, 1934-1970.

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Correspondence, reports, press releases, legal documents, pamphlets, etc., documenting the formation of the union and its activities to improve the lot of sharecroppers, tenant farmers, small landowners and migratory farm workers; its relations with government agencies, other unions and other organizations; its affiliation and break with the CIO and affiliation with the AFL; the change of name to National Farm Labor Union and to National Agricultural Workers Union; efforts to organize farm workers in California; the formation of the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO; the union's merger with the Amalgamated Meat Cutters' Union, etc. Also included on the film; series of newspapers published by the union during its existence; photographs from the union files; a selection of papers from the Socialist Party Archives at Duke University; a selection of Howard A. Kester papers re his work with the union. See also FILM 80/24 z.

60 microfilm reels : positive.

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National Farm Labor Union (U.S.)

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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...

Kester, Howard, 1904-1977

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Howard Anderson Kester was a theologian, educator, and administrator active in Christian movements relating to race relations, pacifism, and economic reform in the South from the 1920s until his retirement in 1970. From the description of Howard Kester papers, 1923-1972. WorldCat record id: 38224023 Howard Anderson Buck Kester was a theologian, educator, and administrator active in Christian movements relating to race relations, pacifism, and economic reform in ...

National Agricultural Workers' Union

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