“I just want to know how you do this with a clear conscience,” Willie Mae Ward, daughter of a former Pitts Farms worker, said about Black workers being underpaid and pushed out of jobs. “I see it as slave-driving.” Full investigation from sara_dinatale:
by Sara DiNatale, Mississippi Today June 29, 2022 INDIANOLA – The new crop of workers arrived with clipped accents and small khaki shorts. Richard Strong remembers the young men – farmers back home – had never seen a massive 28,000-pound tractor until traveling some 8,000 miles to Mississippi. As kids, Richard and his brother, Gregory, earned calloused palms chopping cotton in the swelter of southern summers.
This article first appeared on Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
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