(NAME-MCE) Southern Tenant Farmers' Union

[Deborah Menkart]

The new film (The Great Debaters) about teacher, poet, and activist Melvin
B. Tolson introduces viewers to the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union. Power
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R>  in Our Hands: A Curriculum on the History of Work and Workers in the
United States includes an interactive lesson for middle and high school
students on the challenges faced by the organizers of the Southern Tenant
Farmers' Union as they tried to overcome racial divisions. This lesson is
highly recommended as a companion to The Great Debaters, and the book is
filled with other historically based lessons on labor and organizing.
Deborah Menkart
www.teachingforchange.org