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Article: The lady was a sharecropper: Myrtle Lawrence and the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union.
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- Southern Cultures
- Article date:
- June 22, 1998
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1998 University of North Carolina Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Editors' note: This essay is part of a forthcoming book, "Showers Of Blessings": Myrtle Lawrence and the Southern Thenant Farmers' Union.
From his deathbed, Alabama native Aubrey Williams pleaded for a more textured understanding of the South's poor whites. Lamenting that the poor white southerner "has been despised and insulted over and over, and he has been cheated and he has been gulled and he has been exploited," Williams hoped to share his hard-earned wisdom that the struggle of the African American was entwined intrinsically with the fate of the southern poor white. As a New Deal administrator, the director of the National Youth Administration, and an ...