In 1939 tenant farmers in Southern Missouri protested conditions by camping out along the highway. This demonstration resulted in government aid for the sharecroppers.
Seven papers on rural revolt in Missouri. Two delivered at Missouri Conference on History, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, April, 1979, three at the Mid-America Conference on History, Springfield, Missouri, September, 1979, and two written for the history courses at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and Washington University.
FOLDER LIST
Folder 1:
Mitchell, H. L., The Roadside Encampment of Evicted Sharecroppers of Southeast Missouri in 1939,1980
Churchill, Arthur C., Rich Man, Poor Man, Beggar Man, Theif, 1980
Mitchell, H. L., The 1939 Highway Sitdown in Southeast Missouri, 1979
Ruhrwien, Helen, On the Road: The 1939 Roadside demonstration of Southeast Missouri Sharecroppers Viewed as a Protest Movement, 1984
Folder 2:
Towle, W. Wilder, Farm Laborers Become Home Owners, 1979
Burgess, David S., How the Delmo Farm Labor Homes Were Won, 1979
Hornstein, Robert, Chnanging Winds of Circumstance: The Demise of the Cotton Sharecropper in Missouri's Bootheel, 1925-1945, 1980
Folder 3:
Newspaper articles, 1939-1965
INDEX
Delmo Homes Corporation
Delmo Housing Project
Putzel, Henry V.
Sharecroppers
Snow, Thad
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