"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri

Bruce Moses, Missouri Bootheel map, 2009. This essay revisits the 1939 roadside demonstration of sharecroppers in southeast Missouri, when more than fifteen hundred men, women, and children piled their belongings on the highway shoulder to protest the deleterious effects of New Deal agricult...

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Main Author: Jarod Roll
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Emory Center for Digital Scholarship 2010-03-01
Series:Southern Spaces
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Online Access:https://southernspaces.org/node/42571

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