sharecroppers
October 1, 2021 -
In 1974, Southern Exposure, the print forerunner to Facing South, published an issue of oral histories that included recollections of people who'd been involved with the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union. Many of them refer to the Elaine Massacre, a mass murder of rural Black Arkansans by white mobs in response to sharecropper organizing attempts that took place 102 years ago this week. We're reprinting those oral histories in memory of the massacre.
August 1, 1992 -
This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 20 No. 2, "Money & Politics." Find more from that issue here.
May 1, 1984 -
This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 12 No. 3, "Painting South." Find more from that issue here.
March 1, 1979 -
This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 7 No. 1, "Behind Closed Doors." Find more from that issue here. …
September 1, 1974 -
This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 2 No. 2/3, "Our Promised Land." Find more from that issue here.
