Gilbert C. Fite collection, 1929-1983

Summary

Creator:

Unknown

Date:

1929-1983

Extent:

3.2 Linear Feet 2 cartons, 1 oversized box

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Gilbert C. Fite collection, ms2461, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists the newspaper files of American Agriculture News, inventories of the Congressional Records Series of the University of Oklahoma, and Farmland Industries materials, including annual reports, copies of the minutes of board meetings, prospectuses for stock sales, special reports, correspondence, and notes.

Biographical / historical:

The American Agriculture Movement was began in 1977. Farmers involved with the American Agriculture Movement formed a network of farmers across the United States and Canada to protest the direction of agricultural policy. Protests soon became known as "Tractorcades." See the American Agriculture Movement website.

Farmland was a farmer-owned agricultural cooperative in North America.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Newspapers
Agriculture -- United States
Corporation reports.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Prospectuses.
Books.
Minutes (administrative records)
Annual reports
Correspondence
Notes.

Names:

United States. Congress. House -- Records and correspondence
American Agriculture Movement
United States. Congress. Senate -- Records and correspondence

Preferred citation:

Gilbert C. Fite collection, ms2461, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.