• STFM Cotton Heritage Mural
  • Weighing full sacks of cotton.
  • Cotton picking was a family affair.
  • Front of Bank and Cleaners Today
  • Mitchell's Cleaners in 1934
  • H. L. Mitchell, president of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union.
  • Service Station Facade Today
  • Clay East Service Station in 1934
  • Woman at outdoor STFU meeting.
  • Evicted Sharecropper Family
  • Family of cotton pickers moving up a row.
  • An early union meeting.
  • Reverend Blackstone inducts new STFU member.

*We will be closed Monday, September 4, 2023 in observance of Labor Day. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Standard tours are given Tuesdays and Wednesdays by reservation (call 870-764-2274) and Thursdays – Saturdays hourly from 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM. We now offer a combination tour with Dyess Colony: Johnny Cash Boyhood Home and Southern Tenant Farmers Museum. Please call 870-487-2909 or 870-764-2274 for pricing and reservations.

The Southern Tenant Farmers Museum enhances knowledge and understanding of tenant farming and agricultural labor movements in the Mississippi River Delta, in an effort to preserve the history and promote the legacy of sharecropping, tenant farming and the farm labor movement. The museum is located in the historic Mitchell-East Building in Tyronza, Arkansas, with the restoration of this building and development of the museum made possible through grants from the Arkansas Natural and Cultural Resources Council and a “We the People” Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

To learn more about the history of tenant farming in Arkansas and the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, click here for an Interactive Timeline.

 


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