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AAA policy did not work exactly as planned. Although the AAA had specifically set up rules to protect tenant farmers and sharecroppers, in the Democratic South it was difficult to enforce these rules, and as large agricultural owners took land out of cultivation, they often threw out the tenant farmers who worked the land. So frequent were the evictions that tenant farmers organized the Southern Tenant Farmers Union in 1934 and became increasingly militant about opposing farmland owners. Tensions between the two groups were often heightened by racial tensions, as many sharecroppers were blacks. Night riders and Klansmen enforced evictions, but the tenants resisted intimidation. Eastern Arkansas, the sugar-beet fields of Colorado, lettuce farms in Arizona, and the orange groves of California were the scenes of armed battles between tenant farmers, sharecroppers, migrant workers, and landowners. Such battles were documented in plays such as Erskine Caldwell's...
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