Don't you see where you done wrong
Today…
is National Crème Brûlée Day, Scotch Day and Chicken Finger Day.
is the birthday of Myrtle Lawrence (1891-1980), longtime sharecropper and labor organizer with the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union.
“It should be noted, however, that the union tried to keep Myrtle under wraps. While they used her organizing skills, they considered her ‘not respectable’ due to her ‘spitting publicly and acting exhuberantly.’”Eff a chicken finger, I’d pay top dollar for a plate out of that woman’s kitchen.
According to the intro, Sis Cunningham was introduced to this song by Myrtle, whose 11yo niece, Icie Jewel, composed it after the delta experienced one of the biggest floods they’d ever seen.
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