When Black Sharecroppers Fought Jim Crow
In the 1930s, left-wing unions in the US South organised black sharecroppers to fight for better conditions – and build an alliance with white tenant farmers that could overthrow the Jim Crow regime.
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Nan Elizabeth Woodruff
Nan Elizabeth Woodruff is professor of African American studies and modern US history at Penn State University. She is the author of American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta.