This collection houses minutes and programs documenting the yearly meetings of the East Tennessee Farmers' Convention held at the University of Tennessee. Files for many of the earlier years contain full transcriptions of lectures and question-and-answer sessions; for the later years (after 1950), only the program of events survives. This collection also houses two scrapbooks of newspaper articles about the annual convention, a small set of black-and-white photographs of attendees in various years, and programs of the meetings of the Negro Farmers’ Institute from 1937 through 1964.