1931
Labor organizingBook sources
Black sharecroppers organize in Alabama
Tallapoosa County and other parts of Alabama
Black farmers built the Alabama Sharecroppers Union with Communist organizers. Local organizations demanded better control over crops, relief and improved living conditions while confronting planter power and racial violence.
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Context / qualification
The union’s local Black leadership and autonomy matter alongside its Communist ties. It was a separate organization from the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union founded in Arkansas in 1934.
Sources
- Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, chapter 15, pp. 398–399; supplied print pages, edition/year unidentified
- Encyclopedia of Alabama: Alabama Sharecroppers Union ↗