Sharecroppers with Guns: Organizing the Black Belt
Sharecroppers with Guns: Organizing the Black Belt
In this chapter, Harry Haywood reflects on his work with the Sharecroppers Union to mobilize poor farmers in the deep, Black Belt South during the early 1930s. In the spring of 1933, Haywood Patterson of the Scottsboro Boys was declared guilty in relation to the alleged rape of two white girls in Alabama in 1931. His conviction sparked a a wave of indignation among Black communities across the country. Mass protest rallies, demonstrations of all sorts, and parades culminated in the Free the Scottsboro Boys March on Washington on May 7–9, 1933.
Keywords: farmers, Harry Haywood, Sharecroppers Union, Black Belt South, Scottsboro Boys, International Labor Defense, NAACP, Communist Party of the United States, Alabama
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