MLK in CT
Eating in a nice Hartford restaurant gave the civil rights great a view of how things could be, but...
Much has been made (here in Connecticut, at least) of a teenage Martin Luther King, Jr. coming to the Nutmeg State to pick tobacco leaves in Simsbury.
You couldn’t tell it from today’s fields, but at one point, some 16,000 of the state’s acres were devoted to shade leaf tobacco that was used as a wrapper for premium cigars. Ads for field work…
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