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

Summary: 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.

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  • Physical Description: electronic
    sound recording
    remote
    1 sound file (1 hr., 14 min.) : digital, mp3 file + 1 handout, PDF file
  • Publisher: [Raleigh, N.C.] : North Carolina Museum of History, [2009]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Title from podcasts' website (viewed on March 17, 2010).
Soundfile accompanied by handout.
Participant or Performer Note:
Hosted by B. J. Davis, presenter: Elizabeth Anne Payne.
System Details Note:
System requirements for handout: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Subject:
Lawrence, Myrtle
Southern Tenant Farmers' Union History

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