Brooks Hays letter and memorandum, 1935.

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Brooks Hays letter and memorandum, 1935.

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Typewritten transcript of original one page letter, dated April 15, 1935, and attached eight page typewritten memorandum from Hays to Paul Porter, executive assistant to the administrator of the U.S. Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Memorandum reports Hays's findings on the social conditions and economic plight of share-croppers and tenant farmers in eastern Arkansas, especially as these reflect the impact of AAA policies implemented there. Original documents in U.S. National Archives (Record Group 145, Records of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service; AAA Cotton Code series, Correspondence; Landlord-Tenant section; Tenancy box.).

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University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, University Libraries

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United States. Agricultural Adjustment Agency

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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...

Hays, Brooks

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Baptist lawyer and congressman from Arkansas. Served on the Christian Life Commission and served as President of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1957-1959. From the description of Papers [microform], 1950-1959. (Hudson Valley Community College). WorldCat record id: 72533314 From the description of Papers, 1950-1959. (Hudson Valley Community College). WorldCat record id: 51231066 Employee of U.S. Department of Agriculture and later U.S. representative from Arkansas,...