Times Down Home
Times Down Home

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Published: 1978

Total Pages: 224

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The years since 1902 have been aong the most momentous in recorded history. They have seen more change, more progress, than perhaps any thousand-year period before. And nowhere has this been more true than in the American South. What better way to recount and celebrate these years than through the pages of a periodical of the time?

Farmers Unite!
Farmers Unite!

Author: Lindsay H. Metcalf

Publisher: Astra Publishing House

Published: 2020-11-10

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 1684379083

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In the late 1970s, grain prices had tanked, farm auction notices filled newspapers, and people had forgotten that food didn't grow in grocery stores. So, on February 5, 1979, thousands of tractors from all parts of the US flooded Washington, DC, in protest. Author Lindsay H. Metcalf, a journalist who grew up on a family farm, shares this rarely told story of grassroots perseverance and economic justice. In 1979, US farmers traveled to Washington, DC to protest unfair prices for their products. Farmers wanted fair prices for their products and demanded action from Congress. After police corralled the tractors on the National Mall, the farmers and their tractors stayed through a snowstorm and dug out the city. Americans were now convinced they needed farmers, but the law took longer. Boldly told and highlighted with stunning archival images, this is the story of the struggle and triumph of the American farmer that still resonates today.