1930s Great Depression
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b&w - cotton - farmers - white couple work in farm field - poor whites - men sit on porch of rundown house - house crowded with women and children - child labor - cotton farmer talks to planter landlord - warehouse with cotton surplus - men stand in front of small town post office - exterior Department of Agriculture - Gardner Jackson of the AAA - Agricultural Adjustment Administration - explains that he was fired from the Department of Agriculture for siding with farmers - sharecroppers call for formation of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union - Memphis, Tennessee skyline - homeless farmers, black and white - farmers strike - farmers sing - re-enactment landlords use violence to stop strike - re-enactment pro-labor investigators are beaten by landlords - maps of US cotton farming territories - good shots of country church - Southern church - people sing hymn - woman plays organ - organist - religion - farm workers - black history - Great Depression - sharecroppers - tenant farmers - Southern United States - strikes - labor - New Deal - crops - poverty - poor people - Arkansas