(en) Al Murphy, « Achievements and tasks of the Sharecroppers Union (Party Speech) », dans Albert Fried, Communism in America: A History in Documents, Columbia University Press, , 435 p. (ISBN9780231102353, lire en ligne), p. 142.
Interracial coordinated political activity was a dangerous notion in the South of the 1930s: a white tenant farmer was lynched for his sympathy with the SCU. see Kelley, Robin D. G. (1990). Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press. (ISBN9780807842881). Page 48.