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Author:

Honey, Michael K.

Title:

Sharecropper's troubadour : John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, and the African American song tradition / Michael K. Honey.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xix, 210 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Handcox, John L.,--1904-1992.
Sharecroppers--United States--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Southern Tenant Farmers' Union--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Freedom after 'while : life and labor in the Jim Crow south -- Raggedy, raggedy are we : sharecropping and survival -- The planter and the sharecropper : the Southern Tenant Farmers Union -- There is mean things happening in this land : terror in Arkansas -- Join the union tonight : interracial organizing in Missouri -- Getting gone to the promised land : California -- I'm so glad to be here again : the return of John Handcox.

Series:

Palgrave studies in oral history

ISBN:

0230111289 (pbk.)
9780230111288 (pbk.)
0230111270 (hc.)
9780230111271 (hc.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)857287794

LCCN:

2013029479

Locations:

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

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)