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Title:

[The Southern Tenant Farmers Union] [videorecording]

Format:

[videorecording]

Publisher:

Southern Tenant Farmers Union Association,

Copyright Date:

1986?

Description:

1 videocassette (33 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences ; 1/2 in. + 1 script

Subject:

Mitchell, H. L.--(Harry Leland),--1906-
Southern Tenant Farmers' Union
Organized Migration Plan of Trade Unions and Employers.
Agricultural laborers--History.--Southern States--History.
Radicalism--Southern States--History.
Cotton growing--Southern States.
Southern States--Economic conditions--1918-

Other Authors:

Mitchell, H. L. (Harry Leland), 1906-
White, Mae Kelly.
Dunbar, Anthony P. Against the grain.
Southern Tenant Farmers Union Association.
Time, inc.
East Coast Farm Worker Support Network.

Other Titles:

The land of cotton.
Cleselia's story.
The making of a Southern radical.
The organized migration program.

Notes:

Title from script.

Contents:

The making of a Southern radical / based on the book Against the grain by Anthony P. Dunbar -- The land of cotton / The March of time, August 1936 -- The organized migration program -- Cleselia's story / East Coast Farm Worker Support Network.

Summary:

A four-part preliminary presentation of a documentary discussing the formation and activities of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union; includes interviews with H.L. Mitchell, one of the co-founders of STFU, and Mae Kelly White, organizer of the Organized Migration Plan of Trade Unions and Employers; ends with a depiction of migrant farm labor today as seen through the eyes of a 13 year old girl of Haitian descent.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)14918164

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)