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Farmers Unite!
Lindsay H. Metcalf
Ages: 9+
Published: 2020
Publisher: Calkins Creek/Boyds Mills & Kane
ISBN: 978-1-68437-908-8
Keywords: farming, activism, protests
In the late 1970s, when they earned less selling crops than it cost to produce them, farmers took to the streets on their tractors, demanding support from the government. Archival photographs. Meticulously sourced.