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Hours of

Operation:

 

Monday-Friday:

9 a.m. - 3 p.m.


Saturday:

Noon - 3 p.m.

Closed major holidays. 

For special programs call:
870-487-2909
 

Mission

The Southern Tenant Farmers Museum enhances knowledge and understanding of tenant farming and agricultural labor movements in the Mississippi River Delta.

Vision

To preserve the history and promote the legacy of sharecropping, tenant farming and the farm labor movement.

 

Topics of Interest

 

  • Tenant Farming

  • The Great Depression
  • The New Deal
  • The Agricultural Adjustment Act
  • Southern Tenant Farmers Union
  • Resettlement Communities
  • Missouri Bootheel Demonstration
  • Cotton Production in the Delta
  • Mechanization of Agriculture
  • Labor Movements
  • Agricultural Movements
  • Civil Rights Movements

 

Southern Tenant Farmers Museum

117 Main Street, Tyronza, Arkansas 72386

Telephone:  870-487-2909;  Fax 870-487-2910

 

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