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Cry from the cotton;: The Southern Tenant Farmers' Union and the New Deal,
Book by Grubbs, Donald H.
218 pages, Hardcover
First published October 21, 1971
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February 2, 2022
My mother was raised in a sharecropper family in eastern Arkansas during the 1930's. This book is about the plight of the tenant farmers and sharecroppers in eastern Arkansas in the 1930's. This book is an academic book, written as a research thesis -- that makes it difficult to read in some places. The first half of the book is fairly interesting, as it deals with people and events that describe the difficulty of people during this time. The second half deals with the political dealings, problems, and moving as different groups try to take control of the STFU (Southern Tenant Farmer Union) for political power. I found it interesting
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January 16, 2023Just not gonna rate this one. It’s SO well researched and detailed so it deserves acclaim for that and if you want/need to learn about the tenant farmer’s union there is a lot of good info here. But I usually rate books on how much I enjoyed them and… I did not enjoy this. I read for a book club. I would have preferred a more zoomed out, less detailed, more-interesting-to-the-everyday-person kind of book on sharecropping.
September 29, 2017
3.75 stars. Well written overall and decently engaging, but the continual vomit of names and committees and what not was tiresome. I read this for a class on the Great Depression and it helped illuminate an issue that's rarely talked about.
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October 5, 2023Read for school
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