Title: National Sharecroppers Fund Collection (Part 2) Genre: Records Date: 1937-1985 (Predominantly, 1955-1972) Size: 46 linear feet, 46 storage boxes ID#: 393 OCLC: |
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Scope & Contents
Part 2 of the National Sharecroppers Fund Collection consists primarily of correspondence, program proposals, project materials, and field reports documenting not only NSF’s efforts to provide technical and organizational assistance to the rural poor, but also the personal experiences of sharecroppers in the southern United States as related by NSF field representatives. Significant projects sponsored by NSF included the Southern Rural Training Project (job training and adult education for the hard-core unemployed), the Farm Labor Counseling Program (job placement and training), and the Southern Rural Project (train local leaders for community and program development).
Afro-American agricultural laborers
Afro-Americans--Suffrage--Southern States
Agricultural laws and legislation--United States
Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee
Agriculture, Cooperative--Southern States
Alien labor, Mexican
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America
Cesar Chavez
Children of migrant laborers
Children of migrant laborers--Education
Citizens’ Crusade Against Poverty
Cooperative societies
Economic Opportunity Act of 1964
Mexican American agricultural laborers
Migrant agricultural laborers--California
Migrant agricultural laborers--Housing
Migrant agricultural laborers--Medical care
Migrant agricultural laborers--Nutrition
Migrant agricultural laborers--Southern States
Migrant Children’s Fund
National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor
National Agricultural Workers Union
National Council on Agricultural Life and Labor
National Farm Labor Union
National Farmers Union
Neighborhood Youth Corps Program
Race discrimination in federal aid programs
Racism--Southern States
Rural development--Southern States
Rural health--Southern States
Rural poor--Legal status, laws, etc.
Rural poor--Southern States
Sharecropping--Law and legislation--United States
Sharecropping--Southern States
Social service, Rural
Southern Tenant Farmers Union
Strikes and lockouts--Agricultural laborers--Louisiana
Strikes and lockouts--Vineyard laborers--California
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Sugarcane industry--Southern States
Trade-unions--Migrant agricultural laborers
United Farm Workers Organizing Committee
U. S. Office of Economic Opportunity
U. S. Public Law 78
A large number of photographs taken by field representatives and the film, “Land of Cotton,” have been placed in the Archives Audiovisual Collections
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