The Rise and Fall of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union in Arkansas

"Founded in eastern Arkansas during the Great Depression, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) has long fascinated historians, who have emphasized its biracial membership and the socialist convictions of its leaders, while attributing its demise to external factors, such as the mechanization of agriculture, the repression of wealthy planters, and the indifference of New Dealers. However, as James Ross notes in this compelling revisionist history, such accounts have largely ignored the perspective of the actual sharecroppers and other tenant farmers who made up the union's rank and file"--

שנה

2018

שפה

English

הוצאה

Univ Tennessee Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

166

ISBN

9781621903529

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata