Reminiscences of Fay Bennet Watts : oral history, 1976.

Biographical Note

Lobbyist.

Scope and Contents

Executive Secretary of National Sharecroppers ̀Fund, 1951; work with southern farmers, 1930s-1950s; National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor (NACFL), 1958; Helen Gahagan Douglas ̀interest in migrant workers; NACFLs̀ membership and activities: lobbies for protective legislation for farm workers, abolition of Public Law #78, 1966; NACFLs̀ disbandment, 1966; other farm labor organizations; attitudes towards womens̀ roles in social movements, 1950s versus 1970s.

Subjects

• Agricultural laborers.
• Agricultural laws and legislation.
• Agriculture and politics.
• Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 1900-1980.
• Fry, Amelia R., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Lobbyists--Interviews.
• Migrant agricultural laborers.
• Oral histories.
• Watts, Fay Bennet.
• Women volunteers in social service.

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