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Language: en
Pages: 423
Authors: H. L. Mitchell
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-22 - Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

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A rare firsthand chronicle of one of the most racially progressive unions in twentieth-century America When, during the Great Depression, tenant farmers and sha
Mean Things Happening in this Land
Language: en
Pages: 428
Authors: Harry Leland Mitchell
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher:

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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 or
Sharecropper’s Troubadour
Language: en
Pages: 233
Authors: M. Honey
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-19 - Publisher: Springer

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Folk singer and labor organizer John Handcox was born to illiterate sharecroppers, but went on to become one of the most beloved folk singers of the prewar labo
Working-Class Heroes
Language: en
Pages: 163
Authors: Mat Callahan
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-01 - Publisher: PM Press

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Working-Class Heroes is an organic melding of history, music, and politics that demonstrates with remarkably colorful evidence that workers everywhere will stru
Raising Racists
Language: en
Pages: 248
Authors: Kristina DuRocher
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-05-06 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

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White southerners recognized that the perpetuation of segregation required whites of all ages to uphold a strict social order -- especially the young members of