Reminiscences of H.L. Mitchell, 1957.

Biographical Note

Union official

Scope and Contents

Formation of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union; its eventual affiliation with the Congress of Industrial Organizations; resistance to the Communist Party; reorganization with the American Federation of Labor as the National Agricultural Workers Union; conditions among tenants and sharecroppers in Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Mississippi

Subjects

• Agricultural laborers--Labor unions.
• American Federation of Labor.
• Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)
• Interviews.
• Labor unions--Officials and employees.
• Mitchell, H. L. (Harry Leland), 1906-1989--Interviews.
• National Agricultural Workers Union.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Shaughnessy, Donald F., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Southern States--Economic conditions.
• Southern Tenant Farmers' Union.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1972