The machine that ended the support for the KKK in the south: http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe50s/machines_15.html
After the cotton combines there was no longer the need to prevent blacks from leaving for better wages elsewhere.
“After the cotton combines there was no longer the need to prevent blacks from leaving for better wages elsewhere.”
You bet. So they left. Going to Detroit, Chicago, New York etc...And how’d that work out? So, luckily for us they’re headed back this way now.
Ever wonder why all the blacks in Alabama voted for George Wallace? Just one of those things that make you go “Huh?”
But the South has alway been a place of contradictions.