The Boll Weevil and Cotton Crop Failure

THE BOLL WEEVIL IN SONG
Lyrics to a folk song in which a Boll Weevil is taunting a Tennessee Farmer who is struggling unsuccessfully to grow enough cotton.  Two recorded performances by other artists can be heard online:
A audio || B audio
http://www.uic.edu/educ/bctpi/historyGIS/greatmigration/gmdocs/boll_weevil_song.html

DOCUMENT TOPICS

Crop Failure

Sharecropping

Lynchings

Racism

Jim Crow

Letters

Migration

Life up North

Labor

World War I

Writings of DuBois

Poetry

Images

Chicago Riot

Census Data

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