Ruth Hale collection

Collection

Identifier: L1986-10

Staff Only

Scope and Contents of the Collection

The Ruth Hale collection, 1933-1938, 1971, documents farm conditions, particularly that of sharecroppers, and the activities of Southern Tenant Farmer's Union (an interracial organization founded in 1934 to seek relief from the federal government for sharecroppers and tenant farmers) in Arkansas during the 1930s. The collection contains material, 1933-1938, such as correspondence, complaints of Sharecroppers and Southern Tenant Farmer's Union against Fairview Farms (Arkansas), a report on communist activity in "the South and Birmingham," correspondence to Arkansas Governor J. M. Futrell, minutes from All Cotton States Committee Conference (Washington, D.C.), transcript of a radio speech by Chester C. Davis (Administrator, Agricultural Adjustment Act), a resolution, transcript of a speech by U. S. Representative Lindsay C. Warren (North Carolina) to the House of Representatives, and issues of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union periodical, Share-croppers Voice. The collection also includes clippings dated 1971. All of the material in the collection is in photocopied form.

Dates

1933-1938, 1971

Creator

Hale, Ruth C. (Person)

Restrictions on Access

Collection is open for research use.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Georgia State University is the owner of the physical collection and makes reproductions available for research, subject to the copyright law of the United States and item condition. Georgia State University may or may not own the rights to materials in the collection. It is the researcher's responsibility to verify copyright ownership and obtain permission from the copyright holder before publication, reproduction, or display of the materials beyond what is reasonable under copyright law. Researchers may quote selections from the collection under the fair use provision of copyright law.

Biography of Ruth Hale

Ruth C. Hale was born in Griffin, Georgia, the daughter of an agronomist who moved his family from Arkansas to accept a Depression-era job with the Agricultural Experiment Station in Griffin. Ruth Hale would earn degrees at the University of Arkansas (English) and Columbia University (Library Science). She was an administrator at the library of the Georgia Institute of Technology and served as the Georgia Tech archivist from 1989 until her retirement in 1999.