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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Mean Things Happening in This Land: The Life and Times of H.L. Mitchell, Co-Founder of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union

Mean Things Happening in This Land: The Life and Times of H.L. Mitchell, Co-Founder of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union

Mitchell, H. L.
Mitchell, Samuel

Paperback

Political BiographiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 0806139846
ISBN13: 9780806139845
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: Sep 1 2008
Pages: 424
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

A rare firsthand chronicle of one of the most racially progressive unions in twentieth-century America

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 organizing unions. In 1934, seven black men and eleven white men organized the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Socialist Harry Leland Mitchell was one of those men. Mean Things Happening in This Land is his autobiographical account of SFTU struggles--against poverty, New Deal agencies, communists, and above all, the southern planter class--to achieve economic justice in the cotton fields.

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