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The cotton pickers' strike of 1891 was a labor action of African-American sharecroppers in Lee County, Arkansas in September, 1891. The strike led to open conflict between strikers and plantation owners, racially-motivated violence, and both a sheriff's posse and a lynching party.
The Cotton Museum preserves the history of cotton culture and the legacy of a way of life both long gone and very much a part of the present. [12] The museum has the world's largest boll weevil. [13] The Lee County Veterans Museum was designed, built and furnished by veterans of Lee County. [14]
"Social Control and Labor Relations in the American South Before the Mechanization of the Cotton Harvest in the 1950s" Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (1989): 133-157 Online. Brown, D. Clayton. King Cotton: A Cultural, Political, and Economic History since 1945 (University Press of Mississippi, 2011) 440 pp. ISBN 978-1-60473 ...
When Michael Trotter Jr. and wife Tanya Trotter went to perform at the Coca-Cola Sips & Sounds Music Festival in Austin, Texas, they were greeted by a cotton plant in their dressing room. “We ...
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The grounds are always open and are used to host numerous festivals throughout the year; most notably the Storytelling Festival of Carolina, the Scotland County Highland Games and the John Blue Cotton Festival. John Blue Cotton Festival-- The John Blue Cotton Festival is held the second weekend of October. It traditionally draws over 10,000 ...
Lexington is a town in Lee County, Texas, United States. Its population was 1,217 at the 2020 census . [ 3 ] Lexington, a cattle trading town, is approximately 40 miles (64 km) west of Bryan .
Quincy Asian Resources will present the 36th annual August Moon Festival in downtown Quincy on Sunday, Aug. 20. August Moon Festival to return. And free cotton candy too