stfm.astate.eduSouthern Tenant Farmers Museum

Tenant Farming in Arkansas Visit Timeline Links Support Restoration Team Events Equal Footing: Women in the Southern Tenant Farmers Union Contact Menu Home About Tenant Farming in Arkansas Visit Timeline Links Support Restoration Team Events Equal Footing: Women in the Southern Tenant Farmers Union Contact Search for: Southern Tenant Farmers Union Mural Early Union Meeting March of Time Newsreel Family of Cotton Pickers Front of Bank and Cleaners Today Mitchell’s Cleaners in 1934 Service Station Facade Today Clay East Service Station in 1934 Cotton Picking Exhibits Weighing Sacks of Cotton Evicted Sharecropper Family 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 . Please call 870-487-2909 or 870-764-2274 for pricing and reservations . The 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. Equal Footing: Women in the STFU Learn the history of women in the agricultural labor movement. Explore Share Your Stories Share your memories and help preserve the past for future generations. Explore Newsletters Access archived copies of the STFM newsletter. Explore In the News The is often in the news. Click here to read more. Explore 117 S. Main Street P.O. Box 195 Tyronza, AR 72386 Telephone: 870-487-2909 Fax: 870-487-2910 Arkansas Heritage Sites Arkansas State University P. O. Box 2050 State University, AR 72467 Telephone: 870-972-2803 Fax:...