Southern Tenant Farmers' Union

GPTKB entity

Statements (23)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:trade_unionist
gptkbp:advocatesFor economic justice
racial integration
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:dissolved 1946
gptkbp:focus agricultural laborers
tenant farmers
sharecroppers
gptkbp:foundedIn gptkb:Tyronza,_Arkansas
1934
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Southern Tenant Farmers' Union
gptkbp:mergedInto National Farm Labor Union
gptkbp:notableAction organizing strikes
lobbying for New Deal reforms
gptkbp:notableEvent gptkb:Great_Depression
gptkbp:notableLeader Clay East
H. L. Mitchell
Howard Kester
gptkbp:opposedBy sharecropping system
exploitation of tenant farmers
gptkbp:regionServed gptkb:Southern_United_States
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:John_Handcox
gptkbp:bfsLayer 8