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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) SHARECROPPING & TENANT FARMERS UNION
Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union.
Fourteen photographs of tenant farmer and share-
croppers (3
1
⁄
2
x 5 inches) mounted on a sheet of cardstock from an old scrap book seven
bear inked captions identifying the subjects; while affixed to the page, all seem to be in
very good condition.
Mississippi, Arkansas, circa 1934-1939
[700/1,000]
A VALUABLE VISUAL RECORD OF THE TERRIBLY POOR BLACK FARMERS DURING THE
GREAT DEPRESSION
.
A number of these photos identify important figures in the movement.
John F. Hynds’ name appears at the bottom of one side of this album page. Hynds was the
organizer of St Francis County’s 4500 members. A number of pages of basic research accompa-
nies this lot.
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(TENANT FARMING—SHARECROPPING.) HOLLAND, JAMES.
Collection
of approximately 150 documents, deeds, receipts photographs, cotton mort-
gages, and some related ephemera from a family of sharecroppers in South
Carolina.
Printed and manuscript docu-
ments, mostly single page, some larger;
several photographs, and real photo post
cards; a group of Western Union
telegrams and a colorful U.S. Government
poster for Cotton Week.
Vp, South Carolina, 1895-1955
[600/800]
A small but fascinating archive relating to J. H.
Holland, an African American tenant farmer
and his family in Oconee County, South
Carolina circa 1895 to circa 1955. There are
approximately 100 pieces, including several
early deeds and titles, mortgages, insurance poli-
cies, subsidy forms, telegrams, photographs and
more. The archive tells part of the story of a
black tenant farmer and his family, trying to get
along in the South during the first half of the
twentieth century.
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