Historical Context
Alabama 1950/Mississippi River Delta 1950
In Alabama's 1950s and 1960s, attention was nationally focused on civil rights, such as the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 and also the “Freedom March” from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. The enemies who fought with integrity were Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; and Governor George C. Wallace. There was always a ruckus when protesting blacks, including the 1963 bombing of a church which Four former Ku Klux Klansmen were suspects of the church bombing. Throughout the 1930s-1950s, the Mississippi Delta kept progressing in agriculture boom, because armies had an aggressive demand for the Delta region’s farm products. As the mechanization of agriculture continued, there was no need for women to harvest crops in farms or plant seeds, so they put themselves into service work, while men used the mechanics and worked on the farms.
Source:
http://www.infoplease.com/us-states/alabama.html
Source:
http://www.infoplease.com/us-states/alabama.html