H. L. Mitchell, an ex-sharecropper and cofounder of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU), is shown in this photo by Dorothea Lange in 1938 at the unions Memphis, Tennessee, offices. Mitchell ran a dry-cleaning shop in Tyronza (Poinsett County) at the time he helped form the organization. A museum dedicated to telling the STFU story opened in the shop on October 6, 2006.
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