Shattering white solidarity a history of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union

Date

2009

Creator

["Payne, Elizabeth Anne, 1943-"]

Place

["Southern United States"]

Series

Bits of history podcasts; Perspectives on history lecture

Document Details

Title

Shattering white solidarity a history of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union

Date

2009

Creator

["Payne, Elizabeth Anne, 1943-"]

Contributor

["Davis, B. J.","North Carolina Museum of History."]

Agency-Current

["North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources"]

Publisher

North Carolina Museum of History

Rights

Users are responsible for determining the legal status of and securing any permissions necessary to distribute, reproduce, or make other use of this item.

Description

Hosted by B.J. Davis, presenter: Elizabeth Payne.

Abstract

Payne examines the history of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union (STFU) through the story of white sharecropper and activist Myrtle Lawrence. In September 1939, journalist Priscilla Robertson and photographer Louise Boyle spent ten days documenting Lawrence's life and the harsh and deplorable living and working conditions of white and black sharecroppers in the Arkansas cotton belt.

Subject

["Southern Tenant Farmers' Union--History","Lawrence, Myrtle."]

Place

["Southern United States"]

Time Period

["(1990-current) Contemporary"]

Digital Collections

["North Carolina Digital State Publications Collection"]

Physical Characteristics

1 sound file (1 hr., 14 min.)

Format

["Podcasts"]

Hosted By

["State Library of North Carolina"]

OCLC Number

558530311

Identifier

pubs_shatteringwhitesolidarity2009

Shattering white solidarity a history of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union

Document Details

Image Details

Document Details

Image Details