September 25

American photographer Lewis Hine born in Oshkosh, Wisc. – 1874

Two African-American sharecroppers are killed during an ultimately unsuccessful cotton-pickers strike in Lee County, Ark.  By the time the strike had been suppressed, 15 African-Americans had died and another six had been imprisoned.  A white plantation manager was killed as well - 1891

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