This story originally appeared in Jacobin on Dec. 05, 2023. It is shared here with permission. It’s 1935 and class war is brewing in Arkansas. Standing before 1,500 black and white sharecroppers, the ...
The white folks had all the courts, all the guns, all the hounds, all the railroads, all the telegraph wires, all the newspapers, all the money and nearly all the land – and we had only our ignorance, ...
With the bravery of youth two young Socialists, Harry Leland Mitchell and Clay East from eastern Arkansas, set out in 1934 to do something for Southern sharecroppers. What they did, with the help of ...