Please join us for a lecture on the The Missouri Sharecroppers Strike: Black Resistance in Depression Era Curators Exhibit in Ellis Library.
On February 22, from 2:30-3:30pm in 114A Ellis Library, SHSMO Art Curator Joan Stack will present on the photos photojournalist Arthur Witman documented the Missouri Sharecropper’s Strike along Highways 60 and 61 in Southeast Missouri in 1939. The exhibition of photographs includes images of the strike as well as Witman’s later photos of nearby Cropperville, a village created after the protest where many of the displaced sharecroppers came to live and work communally.
Exhibition and lecture sponsored by The University of Missouri’s Black History Month Committee, The State Historical Society of Missouri, and MU Libraries