[3] He ended up in Arkansas where he was affiliated with other radical preachers, one of whom got him a job as an adult school teacher for the Federal Emergency Relief Administration.

[2] In March 1935, as Time magazine explained, "All the elements of a rip-snorting class-conflict were present in the little town of Marked Tree in January when a youngster of 24 named Ward H. Rodgers, on the executive committee of the STFU, addressed an outdoor gathering of hungry, disgruntled and dispossessed tenant farmers.

Ward Rodgers, a Socialistic Texan with theological degrees from Vanderbilt and Boston Universities, was already in bad odor with the landlord class because he had been calling Negroes 'mister.'

And as an instructor in FERA's adult education service, he had been mixing Karl Marx with the ABC's.

[9] Rodgers settled in the South Bay region of Los Angeles around 1955 and was a member of a machinists' union.