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Plowing new ground : the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union and its place in Delta history / by Van Hawkins.
- Title
- Plowing new ground : the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union and its place in Delta history / by Van Hawkins.
- Author
- Hawkins, Van, 1946-
- Publication
- Virginia Beach, VA : Donning Co. Publishers, 2007.
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Details
- Description
- 176 p. : ill.; 29 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- A violent personality -- Treasure hunt -- Pawns in play -- Outcasts upon the world -- The earth broke open -- Malice in his eyes -- Fork in the road -- The wolf and the lamb -- Spirits not subdued -- Sons of toil -- Cotton patch conflict -- Massacre at Elaine -- Knock 'em down fever -- Poinsett planters -- Timber, towns and a rising river -- Actual destitution -- Widespread effort to chisel -- Despair in the Delta -- Tenants on red square -- A very large number of complaints -- Too hot to handle -- Building a better world -- Red flag spreading -- Forgotten men of the New Deal -- Sharecroppers strike -- Extreme intimidation -- Creating the demand -- Eye openin' time -- Parting ways -- Trying to keep warm -- The mad root's poison -- California dreaming -- Raising cane -- The cane mutiny -- A mark on American history.
- ISBN
- 9781578644148 (hard cover : alk. paper)
- 1578644143 (hard cover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2007002961
- OCLC
- 81940774
- SCSB-12784114
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library