Southern Tenant Farmers Museum in Tyronza tells how tenant farmers unionized against landowners

TYRONZA -- An interracial labor union in the rural Arkansas Delta achieved a degree of success during the Great Depression in the face of rigorous Jim Crow segregation. That effort is remembered with pride at the Southern Tenant Farmers Museum.

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