Martin Luther King: Tobacco Farmer?

SIMSBURY, CT (registercitizen.com) Lynne Sloan never lived in civil rights battlefields like Atlanta, Montgomery, Birmingham, Selma or Memphis. But the Simsbury, Connecticut registered nurse, wife and mother was pinching herself last week at the thought that the late Martin Luther King, Jr., as a teenager, lived, worked and preached on the footprint of her subdivision.
... According to the Simsbury Fire Department website, King lived in a tobacco workers’ dormitory owned by cigar maker Cullman Brothers Tobacco in the summers of 1944 and 1947. The building was the summer home to scores of students attending Morehouse College in Atlanta, who worked on the tobacco farm as a way of earning money for college. Continued