A historical documentary about a dramatic 1939 roadside protest by Missouri Bootheel sharecroppers–black and white–and the repercussions it had in politics and in their lives.
Directed and Edited: by
Script consultant:
Web site Design:
Western Historical Manuscript Collection,
University of Missouri-St. Louis and
Photographs of Arthur Rothstein and Russell Lee from the Library of Congress
TOPICS OF INTEREST TO STUDENTS:
Sharecroppers · Great Migration · Mechanization of Agriculture · Race Relations · New Deal · Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union · Unionization · Protest Music
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Cantor, Louis. A Prologue to the Protest Movement: The Missouri Sharecropper Roadside Demonstration of 1939. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1969.
Greene, Lorenzo J. “Lincoln University’s Involvement with the Sharecropper Demonstration in Southeast Missouri, 1939-1940.” Missouri Historical Review, October 1987.
Greene, Lorenzo J., Gary R. Kremer, and Antonio F. Holland. Missouri’s Black
Heritage. St. Louis: Forum Press, 1980.
Mitchell, H.L. Mean Things Happening in This Land. Montclair, New Jersey: Allanheld, Osmun & Co., 1979.
Snow, Thad. From Missouri. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin Company, 1954.
Strickland, Arvarh E. “The Plight of the People in the Sharecroppers’ Demonstration in Southeast Missouri.” Missouri Historical Review, July 1987.
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