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The Rural Poor
ResumeGuests:
Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor staff reporter
and Author of the special four-part series in entitled "Alone on the Range"
Chuck Hassebrook, Executive Director for the Center for Rural Affairs in Walthill, Nebraska
Gil Alexander, Third generation farmer and currently the only full time farmer working in Nicodemus, Kansas, where more than a century ago, freed slaves from Kentucky created the largest exclusively African American settlement west of the Mississippi River
Phyllis Bell, 70 year resident of Lebanon, Kansas and Managing Editor of the Lebanon Times
This program aired on February 19, 2003.