Episode Synopsis "Mo' Curious: The living legacy of Missouri's dramatic 1939 sharecroppers' strike (part 1)"

Back in 1939, the world was a different place. For one thing, there were a lot more people involved in farming. In Missouri's Bootheel region, this meant bodies were needed to grow cotton. Under the sharecropper model, those Missourians who grew cotton had no guarantees of a wage. They could be evicted anytime from the […]

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