A Study of Southern Agrariansim in the 1930s

FAIN: GY-10371-76

Jess Gilbert
University of Wisconsin, Madison (Madison, WI 53715-1218)

To produce an interdisciplinary essay of roughly 75 pages comparing and contrasting the two types of Jeffersonian Agrarianism in the South during the 1930’s: That advocated by a conservative, literary, intellectual group emanating from Vanderbilt University and that advocated by the radical, political, activist unions of sharecroppers and tenant farmers.