The Cotton Industry
- calaboosemuseumsmt
- Apr 22
- 1 min read
Cotton Roots: African Americans & the Cotton Industry
Purpose & Significance: Reveals the backbone of local agricultural success and Black labor
What Visitors Will See: Tools, sharecropper records, family photos, cotton bales
Origins: Stories collected from descendants of cotton workers
Subject Bio: Features unnamed workers whose lives built the local economy
“Our hands picked the cotton—and shaped the land."
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