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“Learn more about the history of the area”
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 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.
This museum is definitely worth a visit, especially if you're at all curious about the history of agriculture and the people of the Delta who toiled under arduous conditions. I was impressed... Read more
Saw the sign on the highway so turned around to see the museum. We spent about 40 minutes with guide Amy learning the history of the region's geography and economy, and the labor movement in the... Read more
Southern Tenant Farmers Museum
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- Mon - Fri: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
- Sat: 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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