Mean Things Happening in this Land: The Life and Times of H.L. Mitchell, Co-founder of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union - Couverture souple

Mitchell, H. L.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0806139846 ISBN 13 : 9780806139845

Editeur : University of Oklahoma Press, 2008

Synopsis

A rare firsthand chronicle of one of the most racially progressive unions in twentieth-century America

When, during the Great Depression, tenant farmers and sharecroppers were pushed off the land they had worked but never owned, many sought power in numbers by organizing unions. In 1934, seven black men and eleven white men organized the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Socialist Harry Leland Mitchell was one of those men. Mean Things Happening in This Land is his autobiographical account of SFTU struggles--against poverty, New Deal agencies, communists, and above all, the southern planter class--to achieve economic justice in the cotton fields.

In addition to its original foreword, by renowned socialist intellectual Michael Harrington, this edition contains a new preface by Samuel Mitchell and the author's posthumous corrections and additions.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

H. L. Mitchell (1906-89) was briefly a sharecropper in Tennessee before cofounding the STFU and becoming a labor organizer.

Samuel Mitchell, son of the author and former Professor of Education, University of Calgary, is the author of The Leader of Sharecroppers, Migrants, and Farm Workers: H. L. Mitchell and Friends.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Oklahoma Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0806139846
• ISBN 13: 9780806139845
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 424
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• Personne responsable: non disponible