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  • The Carter Administration Documents: Farm Prices, Protest, American Agriculture Movement (A.A.M.) Parity
    2022/11/22

    A discussion on the documents inside the folder from the Carter Library: Farm Prices, Protest, American Agriculture Movement (A.A.M.) Parity.

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    31 分
  • Kersey vs Carter Episode 13 The Railroad vs American Agriculture
    2022/11/22

    Central Of Georgia Railroad vs American Agriculture was the court case that threatened to end the farmer's strike at the courthouse in Macon. After an energetic rally at the Macon State Farmer's Market on December 14, 1977, a summons to appear was delivered to four farmers and American Agriculture.

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    1 時間
  • Kersey vs Carter Chapter 12 The DC Tractorcade
    2022/08/15

    On January 22, 1979, the National Wagon Master, Gerald McCathern, left Bushland, Texas and started the DC Tractorcade. 8 routes converged on DC and ended at the Potomac River where the farmers camped and waited till February 5 to enter DC during rush hour that Monday morning.

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    25 分
  • Kersey vs Carter Chapter 11 Plains, Trains and Tractorcades
    2022/08/15

    The striking farmers travel back to Plains, stop traffic, and get in a scrap with the Georgia State Patrol. After several farmers are arrested, they stop a train until the farmers are released. 

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    29 分
  • Kersey vs Carter Chapter 10 Washington Got My Goat!
    2022/08/15

    After the protest in McAllen, fed up farmers purchased and released every goat and chicken they could buy on Capitol Hill. The USDA Building became locked to the farmers, prompting them to have a good ol' fashion sit in!

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    33 分
  • Kersey vs Carter Chapter 9 Reenacting the Alamo, in McAllen
    2022/08/09

    While the Pickupcade was in Washington, things weren't going as quickly as some folks liked. After a meeting in Oklahoma, bridges across the Rio Grande became the target of the AAM.

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    41 分
  • Kersey vs Carter Chapter 8 Pickupcades and Emmett Reynolds
    2022/08/01

    The striking farmers make their first trip to Washington DC in pickups, buses and a few tractors. The planning process is impeded by the state Farm Bureau president, resulting in a recall effort against him that disintegrated into a food fight on Riverside Drive in Macon.

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    38 分
  • Kersey vs Carter Episode 7 The Strike Begins
    2022/08/01

    The Farmer Strike begins with a bang and a visit from the USDA Secretary and ends up at Jimmy Carter's house on Christmas Eve.

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    53 分