Southern Tenant Farmers Union

Southern Tenant Farmers Union The Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU!) was one of the nation's first racially integrated labor unions.

Founded in Tyronza, Arkansas, it was comprised mainly of sharecroppers. From the Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture:

"The Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union (STFU) was a federation of tenant farmers formed in July 1934 in Poinsett County with the immediate aim of reforming the crop-sharing system of sharecropping and tenant farming. The facts that the STFU was integrated, that women played a

critical role in its organization and administration, and that fundamentalist church rituals and regional folkways were basic to the union’s operation dramatically foreshadowed the post-war civil rights era."

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Tyronza, AR

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Southern Tenant Farmers Union online resources: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Southern-Tenant-Farmers-Museum/59827178017 Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Tenant_Farmers_Union Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture: http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=35 Daily Kos: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/05/24/727557/-STFU Zinned Project: http://zinnedproject.org/posts/1429 Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture: http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/S/SO016.html BlackPast.org: http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/southern-tenant-farmers-union University of Texas Arlington Library Special Collections: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utarl/00068/arl-00068.html

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The Southern Tenant Farmers Union was renamed in later years to the National Agricultural Workers Union and the Agricultural and Allied Workers Union. None of these organizations exists today.

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