Sharecropper’s Troubadour

Michael Honey is the Fred T. and Dorothy G. Haley Endowed Professor of the Humanities at The University of Washington, USA, and was a 2011 Guggenheim fellow. He is author of numerous award-winning books on labor, race relations, and Southern history, including Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign (Norton, 2007). His interviews and writing regularly appear in national media such as The Atlantic, NPR/Fresh Air, The Nation, History News Network, ColorLines, and many other print and digital publications.

Foreword by Pete Seeger Introduction: Music, Memory, and History 1. Freedom After 'While: Life and Labor in the Jim Crow South 2. Raggedy, Raggedy Are We: Sharecropping and Survival 3. The Planter and the Sharecropper: The Southern Tenant Farmers Union 4. There Is Mean Things Happening in This Land: Terror in Arkansas 5. Join the Union Tonight: Interracial Organizing in Missouri 6. Getting Gone to the Promised Land: California 7. I'm So Glad to be Here Again: The Return of John Handcox