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OverviewA rare firsthand chronicle of one of the most racially progressive unions in twentieth-century AmericaWhen, 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. In addition to its original foreword, by renowned socialist intellectual Michael Harrington, this edition contains a new preface by Samuel Mitchell and the author's posthumous corrections and additions. Full Product DetailsAuthor: H. L. Mitchell , Samuel MitchellPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.567kg ISBN: 9780806139845ISBN 10: 0806139846 Pages: 424 Publication Date: 30 September 2008 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationH. L. Mitchell (1906-89) was briefly a sharecropper in Tennessee before cofounding the STFU and becoming a labor organizer. Samuel Mitchell, son of the author and former Professor of Education, University of Calgary, is the author of The Leader of Sharecroppers, Migrants, and Farm Workers: H. L. Mitchell and Friends. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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