..., but the Victory Farm Volunteers, a program of the federal US Crop Corps, have been largely overlooked, despite the numbers of urban youth who participated. This study examines the program as it was carried out in the states of the Great Plains, particularly its relationship to 4-H and its impact on farm...

...Don Mitchell From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement . By Matt Garcia . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2012 . 368 pp., $34.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-520-25930-0 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015...

...Randal Beeman The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement . By Miriam Pawel . New York : Bloomsbury Press , 2009 . 336 pp., $28.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-59691-460-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Agricultural...

... victory. The key to coordinating the efforts of these three pools of labor, Tolley argued,was simply putting the right man in the right spot to lend his full power to the winning of the war. The clear implication was that more men needed to recognize that their right spot was the American farm.2...

...-First Century (New York: Routledge Press, 2014); George Mariscal, Brown-Eyed Children of the Sun: Lessons from the Chicano Movement, 1965-1975 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005); Matt Garcia, From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker...

... Safety Review "The Farm Accident Situation: What the Farm Division National Safety Council is Doing About It," Farm Safety Review ( Mar. 1956 ): 4 . Herb Plambeck, ed., Iowa Farm Safety in the 20th Century: A History of Contributions by Rural Safety Volunteers (Des Moines: R. E. Hay, 1984), 1...

.... His demonstrators, those farmers who volunteered to follow the agent s advice thereby demonstrating the best farming methods for his neighbors, were, the Geneva agent reported, making a good fight on the weevil, but late season rains brought on a boom in the insect population. In Russell County...

... THOMAS G. ALEXANDER On 23 July 1847, the pioneer party of settlers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gathered on the banks of City Creek in what is now downtown Salt Lake City. Impressed with the "very rich land" and "deep grass," they prepared to start planting and irrigating farms near...

... , Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology ( Cambridge : MIT Press , 1990 ); Audra J. Wolfe , “‘How Not to Electrocute the Farmer’: Assessing Attitudes Towards Electrification on American Farms, 1920– 1940,” Agricultural History 74 ( Spring 2000 ): 515 – 29 ; Noé Lopez...

... to purchase the land (five-and-a-half acres), and then dozens of volunteers, working in the evenings after farming all day, built the grandstand, leveled the infield, and laid the outfield sod all in time for the 1955 season to begin.36 With expectations from the community now higher than ever, the pressure...

..., inequities in health care, and school segregation. Her family’s work on the farm also helped sustain her activism. © 2019 Agricultural History Society 2019 NOTES 1. “Brief biography of Simkins,” Biographical Papers, General, 1913–1992, Modjeska Simkins Papers, South Carolina Political Collections...

... on TwentiethCentury Farm Policies," Agricultural History70 (Spring1996): 127 -438 James N. Giglio, "New Frontier Agricultural Policy: The Commodity Side, 1961-1963," Agricultural History61 (Summer1987): 53 -70 Robert A. Divine , editor, The Johnson Years , 3 volumes (Lawrence: University Press...