Jerry Dallas Delta Cooperative Farm collection : 1936-1987 / [researched and compiled by Jerry Dallas].
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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...
Delta Cooperative Farm Project (Hillhouse, Miss.)
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Dallas, Jerry Webster, 1941-
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Dr. Jerry Dallas, professor of History at Delta State University, donated this collection of materials used for his research on cooperative farming in the Mississippi Delta. Most of the material concerns the Delta Cooperative Farm, which was established in 1936 and located near Hillhouse in Bolivar County, Mississippi. Black and white families resided on the farm, which provided a haven for the abused sharecroppers of Northeastern Arkansas who were being persecuted for their involvement with the...
