June 2, 2011

June Meeting

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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