Mean Things Happening In This Land

Author : H. L. Mitchell
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806186078

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Mean Things Happening in this Land by H. L. Mitchell Pdf

A rare firsthand chronicle of one of the most racially progressive unions in twentieth-century America When, during the Great Depression, tenant farmers and sharecroppers were pushed off the land they had worked but never owned, many sought power in numbers by organizing unions. In 1934, seven black men and eleven white men organized the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Socialist Harry Leland Mitchell was one of those men. Mean Things Happening in This Land is his autobiographical account of SFTU struggles—against poverty, New Deal agencies, communists, and above all, the southern planter class—to achieve economic justice in the cotton fields. In addition to its original foreword, by renowned socialist intellectual Michael Harrington, this edition contains a new preface by Samuel Mitchell and the author’s posthumous corrections and additions.

Author : Archie Green
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Music
ISBN : 1879407051

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Songs about Work by Archie Green Pdf

These essays offer striking portraits of working environments where song arose in response to prevailing conditions. Included are the protest blues of African American levee workers, the corridos of Chicano farm workers, and the European songs of immigrant lumber workers in the Midwest.

Author : Mat Callahan,Yvonne Moore
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781629637662

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Working-Class Heroes by Mat Callahan,Yvonne Moore Pdf

Working-Class Heroes is an organic melding of history, music, and politics that demonstrates with remarkably colorful evidence that workers everywhere will struggle to improve their conditions of life. And among them will be workers who share an insight: in order to better our lot, we must act collectively to change the world. This profusely illustrated treasury of song sheets, lyrics, photographs, histories, and biographical sketches explores the notion that our best hope lies in the capacity of ordinary working people to awaken to the need to emancipate ourselves and all of humanity. Featuring over a dozen songwriters, from Joe Hill to Aunt Molly Jackson,Working-Class Heroes delivers a lyrical death blow to the falsehood that so-called political songs of the twentieth century were all written by intellectuals in New York. Many, like Ella May Wiggins, were murdered by the bosses. Others, like Sarah Ogan Gunning, watched their children starve to death and their husbands die of black lung, only to rise up singing against the system that caused so much misery. Most of the songs collected here are from the early twentieth century, yet their striking relevance to current affairs invites us to explore the historical conditions that inspired their creation: systemic crisis, advancing fascism, and the threat of world war. In the face of violent terror, these working-class songwriters bravely stood up to fight oppression. Such courage is immortal, and the songs of such heroes can still lift our spirits, if we sing them today. Featured in this twenty-song collection are Sarah Ogan Gunning, Ralph Chaplin, Woody Guthrie, Ella May Wiggins, Joe Hill, Paul Robeson, John Handcox, Aunt Molly Jackson, Jim Garland, Alfred Hayes, Joseph Brandon, and several anonymous proletarian songwriters whose names have been long forgotten, though their words will never die.

Author : M. Honey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137088369

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Sharecropper’s Troubadour by M. Honey Pdf

Folk singer and labor organizer John Handcox was born to illiterate sharecroppers, but went on to become one of the most beloved folk singers of the prewar labor movement. This beautifully told oral history gives us Handcox in his own words, recounting a journey that began in the Deep South and went on to shape the labor music tradition.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Communism
ISBN : UCM:5321432022

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Communist Methods of Infiltration (government-labor) by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities Pdf

Author : Michael Pasquier
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253008084

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Gods of the Mississippi by Michael Pasquier Pdf

From the colonial period to the present, the Mississippi River has impacted religious communities from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. Exploring the religious landscape along the 2,530 miles of the largest river system in North America, the essays in Gods of the Mississippi make a compelling case for American religion in motion—not just from east to west, but also from north to south. With discussion of topics such as the religions of the Black Atlantic, religion and empire, antebellum religious movements, the Mormons at Nauvoo, black religion in the delta, Catholicism in the Deep South, and Johnny Cash and religion, this volume contributes to a richer understanding of this diverse, dynamic, and fluid religious world.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1522 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015014202413

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Hearings by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities Pdf

Author : John Greenway
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781512816426

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American Folksongs of Protest by John Greenway Pdf

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1192 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Communism
ISBN : UGA:32108010251950

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Hearings [and Reports] 83rd Congress, 1st Session by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1566 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Communism
ISBN : UCAL:B4915638

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Communist Methods of Infiltration (education) by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Communism
ISBN : LOC:00060092370

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Hearings Regarding Jack R. McMichael by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities Pdf

Author : Ronald D. Cohen
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781469628820

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Depression Folk by Ronald D. Cohen Pdf

While music lovers and music historians alike understand that folk music played an increasingly pivotal role in American labor and politics during the economic and social tumult of the Great Depression, how did this relationship come to be? Ronald D. Cohen sheds new light on the complex cultural history of folk music in America, detailing the musicians, government agencies, and record companies that had a lasting impact during the 1930s and beyond. Covering myriad musical styles and performers, Cohen narrates a singular history that begins in nineteenth-century labor politics and popular music culture, following the rise of unions and Communism to the subsequent Red Scare and increasing power of the Conservative movement in American politics--with American folk and vernacular music centered throughout. Detailing the influence and achievements of such notable musicians as Pete Seeger, Big Bill Broonzy, and Woody Guthrie, Cohen explores the intersections of politics, economics, and race, using the roots of American folk music to explore one of the United States' most troubled times. Becoming entangled with the ascending American left wing, folk music became synonymous with protest and sharing the troubles of real people through song.

Author : Jermaine Fowler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781955905152

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The Humanity Archive by Jermaine Fowler Pdf

This sweeping survey of Black history shows how Black humanity has been erased and how its recovery can save the humanity of us all. Using history as a foundation, The Humanity Archive uses storytelling techniques to make history come alive and uncover the truth behind America's whitewashed history. The Humanity Archive focuses on the overlooked narratives in the pages of the past. Challenging dominant perspectives, author Jermaine Fowler goes outside the textbooks to find recognizably human stories. Connecting current issues with the heroic struggles of those who have come before us, Fowler brings hidden history to light. Praise for The Humanity Archive: From the African Slave Trade to Seneca Village to Biddy Mason and more, The Humanity Archive is a very enriching read on the history of Blackness around the world. I was hooked by Fowler's storytelling and would recommend others who want to pore over a book that outlines critical moments in history—without putting you to sleep. — Philip Lewis, Senior Editor, HuffPost Fowler sees historical storytelling and the sharing of knowledge as a vocation and a means of fostering empathy and understanding between cultures. A deft storyteller with a sonorous voice, Fowler's passion for his material is palpable as he unfurls the hidden histories. — Vanity Fair Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Jermaine Fowler is a storyteller and self-proclaimed intellectual adventurer who spent his youth seeking knowledge on the shelves of his local free public library. Between research and lecturing, he is the host of the top-rated history podcast, The Humanity Archive, praised as a must-listen by Vanity Fair. Challenging dominant perspectives, Fowler goes outside the textbooks to find recognizably human stories. Connecting current issues with the heroic struggles of those who've come before us, he brings hidden history to light and makes it powerfully relevant.

Author : Nan Elizabeth Woodruff
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674045330

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American Congo by Nan Elizabeth Woodruff Pdf

This is the story of how rural Black people struggled against the oppressive sharecropping system of the Arkansas and Mississippi Delta during the first half of the twentieth century. Here, white planters forged a world of terror and poverty for Black workers, one that resembled the horrific deprivations of the African Congo under Belgium’s King Leopold II. Delta planters did not cut off the heads and hands of their African American workers but, aided by local law enforcement, they engaged in peonage, murder, theft, and disfranchisement. As individuals and through collective struggle, in conjunction with national organizations like the NAACP and local groups like the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union, Black men and women fought back, demanding a just return for their crops and laying claim to a democratic vision of citizenship. Their efforts were amplified by the two world wars and the depression, which expanded the mobility and economic opportunities of Black people and provoked federal involvement in the region. Nan Woodruff shows how the freedom fighters of the 1960s would draw on this half-century tradition of protest, thus expanding our standard notions of the civil rights movement and illuminating a neglected but significant slice of the American Black experience.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Southern States
ISBN : UVA:X001193693

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Southern Exposure by Anonim Pdf