SCOTT COUNTY MISSOURI HISTORICAL
AND
GENEALOGY SOCIETY MEETING
THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 2011
7:00 P.M.
RIVERSIDE REGIONAL LIBRARY
BENTON, MO
BONNIE STEPENOFF, AUTHOR
Thad Snow: a Life of Social Reform in Southeast Missouri
Published 2003
Program
Thad Snow, the Flood of 1937
And
The Sharecroppers’ Roadside Demonstration of 1939
Thad Snow was a land owner in Mississippi County, MO, who watched as sharecroppers fled from the river bottoms in 1937 when the Corps of Engineers breached the levee at Bird’s Point. Two years later, in January 1939, he sided with the sharecroppers when they demonstrated against social injustice by camping out along highways 60 and 61 in the Bootheel.
EVERYONE WELCOME
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