“To Scratch and Crow under Our Own Vine and Fig Tree”: The National Federation of Colored Farmers, the Modern Farmer, and the Farm Bureau, 1929–1949

cherisse jones-branch is dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Communication and professor of history at Arkansas State University. She is author of Crossing the Line: Women and Interracial Activism in South Carolina during and after World War II and Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women's Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1913–1965 and coeditor of Arkansas Women: Their Lives and Times. Jones-Branch is working on a third book project titled “‘. . . To Make the Farm Bureau Stronger and Better for All the People’: African Americans and the American Farm Bureau Federation, 1920–1966.” She was the 2023–24 president of the Agricultural History Society and delivered this article as the presidential address at the society's 2024 meeting in Las Cruces, New Mexico.