Farming quickly took over. The devastation of Southern cotton fields by boll weevils in the early 1920s brought to the cooler Bootheel an influx of black and white sharecroppers and cotton became the principal crop. Conflict over New Deal subsidies to increase cotton prices by reducing production led to the 1939 Sharecropper Demonstration, foreshadowing civil rights protests three decades later.
Farming quickly took over. The devastation of Southern cotton fields by boll weevils in the early 1920s brought to the cooler Bootheel an influx of black and white sharecroppers and cotton became the principal crop. Conflict over New Deal subsidies to increase cotton prices by reducing production led to the 1939 Sharecropper Demonstration, foreshadowing civil rights protests three decades later.
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Southeast Missouri from Swampland to Farmland: The Transformation of the Lowlands
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ISBN-13: | 9780786479955 |
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Publisher: | McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers |
Publication date: | 05/08/2017 |
Pages: | 260 |
Sales rank: | 776,697 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.52(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |