Henry Clay East papers : correspondence and printed materials, 1934-1973.

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Henry Clay East papers : correspondence and printed materials, 1934-1973.

Papers comprise correspondence from H.L. Mitchell to East regarding Mitchell's union work after the Southern Tenant Farmers Union merged with other labor unions. Some correspondence concerns East's personal and political activities. Other materials include clippings, pamphlets, brochures, and newsletters that East either obtained himself or received from Mitchell. Papers include a manuscript southern radicalism in the thirties: Commonwealth College and the Southern Tenant Farmers by William H. Cobb and DonaldH. Grubbs.

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Grubbs, Donald H., 1936-....

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East, Henry Clay, 1900-

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Cobb, William H.

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North Carolina state medical examiner. From the description of Royal Arcanum : record of medical examinations, 1903-1913 / supervised by Wm. H.H. Cobb, M.D. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 32098580 From the description of Royal Arcanum : record of medical examinations, 1890-1903 / supervised by Wm. H.H. Cobb, M.D. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 32098479 ...

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 ...

Socialist Party (Ark.). Tyronza.

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Commonwealth College (Mena, Ark.)

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Organized in 1923. Its aim was to provide training for young people to work in the labor movement. It was also an experiment in educational self-support, educational democracy, and cooperative living. It closed in 1940. From the description of Commonwealth College records, 1932. (Wayne State University, Archives of Labor & Urban). WorldCat record id: 32321528 ...