Reel 59

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Consist of correspondence, reports, ledgers, legal documents, leaflets, printed material, photographs, and newspapers published by the union. These document the activities of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union from its origins through its transformations into the National Farm Labor Union in 1946 and the National Agriculture Workers Union in 1952, and through its merger with the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union in 1960. The records also contain selected materials from the Socialist Party...

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Xerox copies of 44 items from the Socialist Party Archives, selected by H.L. Mitchell. These include primarily letters from Mitchell to Clarence Senior and other Socialist Party officials from November, 1934 to May, 1936, but there is also a copy of an undated STFU questionnaire and a synopsis of the March of Time newsreel on the union, dated August, 1936.

Scope and Contents Approximately 2,000 items from the Howard A. Kester Papers relating to Kester's work with the STFU, selected and arranged by H.L. Mitchell. Major topics include the Ward H. Rodgers case, the trail of H.L. Mitchell by an STFU investigating committee in early 1935, the union's relations with the Socialist and Communist Parties, the writing of Revolt of the Sharecroppers, the beating of Howard Kester at Earle, Arkansas in January, 1936, National Sharecroppers Week, the union's relationship with...