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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Encouraged by Socialist Thomas and Professor William R. Amberson of the University of Tennessee, who interrupted his noteworthy researches into artificial blood transfusions (TIME, July 23), the Poinsett County share croppers last summer formed a protective association, The Southern Tenant Farmers' Union. Program: no evictions; no forced trading at plantation commissaries; direct payment of reduction benefits; representation on all agricultural control boards; co-operation of white and black share croppers. In spite of further evictions for Union participation, in the face of ostentatiously armed "plantation riders," the Union now numbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: 'Bootleg Slavery | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

...because he had been calling Negroes "mister." And as an instructor in FERA's adult education service, he had been mixing Karl Marx with the ABC's. He was quoted as saying he was willing, if share croppers were not fed, to "lynch every plantation owner in Poinsett County." Clapped into jail, he was speedily brought to trial, convicted of "anarchy." He has taken an appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: 'Bootleg Slavery | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

Died. Vice Admiral Joel Roberts Poinsett Pringle. 59. Commander of Battleships, onetime president of the Naval War College, slated as next Chief of Naval Operations; after being taken suddenly ill during maneuvers off the Washington coast (TIME. Sept. 26); in San Diego, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 3, 1932 | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

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