Southern states were thrown into a moral tailspin following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education which declared that the doctrine known as “separate but equal” had no place in public education. Segregationists like George Wallace, the governor of Alabama, were defiant, lawyers throughout the South refused to defend the […]
MFA Turns 100
On March 10, 1914, seven farmers from Brunswick, in central Missouri, met in the Newcomer Schoolhouse. Invited to the meeting by local farmer and stockman Aaron Bachtel, the men formed a farm club and submitted an order for binder twine to William Hirth. The purchase netted the farmers $400 in savings. Hirth had been […]
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