| Collection Name: |
Farm Holiday Association Project |
| Repository Name: |
Columbia University. Oral History Research Office [Repository Details] |
| Repository Location: |
New York, New York, United States |
| URL: |
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/oral/guides/farm.html |
| Dates Spanned: |
1960-1961 |
| Description: |
Farm Holiday Association pressure on the New Deal in 1933-34, as recalled by participants, with descriptions of riots and violence, threats of a farm strike, demands for mortgage relief, and impressions of Milo Reno. The memoirs also include material dealing with the United Farmers League and other Communist-sponsored rivals of the Farm Holiday Association. |
| Estimated Total of Interviews: |
25 |
| Interviews: |
[5 interview(s) listed in this collection] |
| Broad Subjects: |
U.S. Politics; Industry and Labor; Economics; Politics |
| ASP Subjects: |
Civil rights and socialism; Communism; Depressions--1929--United States; Farmers; Great Depression, 1929-1941; History; Local history; New Deal, 1933-1939--United States; Oral history; Strikes and lockouts; United States |
| Other Subjects: |
Farm Holiday Association; Farm strikes; Milo Reno; Mortage relief; United Farmers League |
| Collection Code: |
OHC0000827 |
