Today in history
Subtitle: December 11
Publisher: Library of Congress
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Subjects: Boll weevil; History; Cotton; Diseases and pests
Other titles: December 11; Boll weevil honored
Description: Presents information on the boll weevil that damaged American cotton crops in the first half of the twentieth century. Includes information about the monument erected by the citizens of Enterprise, Alabama, on December 11, 1919, due to the devastation caused by the boll weevil, along with recorded songs and anecdotes by cotton pickers.
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Illustrated by digitized items from the American Memory historic collections compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.

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