In January 1939, more than 1,000 sharecroppers and their families set up a protest camp on the side of two Missouri state highways. While the majority of protesters were African American, they were joined by white sharecroppers who were dealing with the same levels of abject poverty, one of the first examples of an integrated protest against economic injustice that predates the modern civil rights movement.
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In January 1939, more than 1,000 sharecroppers and their families set up a protest camp on the side of two Missouri state highways. While the majority of protesters were African American, they were joined by white sharecroppers who were dealing with the same levels of abject poverty, one of the first examples of an integrated protest against economic injustice that predates the modern civil rights movement.