A monument in Enterprise, Alabama, dedicated to a beetle that tanked its town's economy by devastating its cotton crops. The ...

In 1979, two brothers who farmed cotton in the Mississippi delta received what they thought was an irresistible offer from Chevron Chemical Company. Edward and Louis Jackson of Cleveland, ...

11, 1919, the citizens of Enterprise, Alabama, erected a monument to the boll weevil, the pest that devastated their fields, but forced residents to end their dependence on cotton and to pursue ...