Farmers Unite!: Planting a Protest for Fair Prices - Couverture rigide

Metcalf, Lindsay H.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1684379083 ISBN 13 : 9781684379088

Editeur : Calkins Creek, 2020

Synopsis

In the late 1970s, grain prices had tanked, farm auction notices filled newspapers, and people had forgotten that food didn't grow in grocery stores. So, on February 5, 1979, thousands of tractors from all parts of the US flooded Washington, DC, in protest.

Author Lindsay H. Metcalf, a journalist who grew up on a family farm, shares this rarely told story of grassroots perseverance and economic justice. In 1979, US farmers traveled to Washington, DC to protest unfair prices for their products. Farmers wanted fair prices for their products and demanded action from Congress. After police corralled the tractors on the National Mall, the farmers and their tractors stayed through a snowstorm and dug out the city. Americans were now convinced they needed farmers, but the law took longer. Boldly told and highlighted with stunning archival images, this is the story of the struggle and triumph of the American farmer that still resonates today.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lindsay H. Metcalf has covered many change-makers as a reporter, editor, and columnist for The Kansas City Star and other news outlets. She is a co-editor of No Voice Too Small, a picture-book poetry anthology featuring fourteen young people making history.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Calkins Creek
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1684379083
• ISBN 13: 9781684379088
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne