For more than 100 years Mullins was the major tobacco market for South Carolina. Since 1997 the tobacco allotment has been cut in half, textile manufacturers have moved away and Mullins, a town of 5000 has lost more than 1200 jobs. The Last Auction explores how this small rural town is working to reinvent itself after the crippling loss of its economic base.
RESOURCES
Farming is Changing
Sharecropping
Migrant Workers
South Carolina Tobacco Museum
Truth
CREDITS
Project Producer/Manager: Betsy Newman
Web Designer/Videographer: Alejandro Baez
Content Producer: Amy Shumaker
Interactive Designer (Original Website): Greg Lunn
Videographer: Gaines Halford
Interactive Producer (Original Website): Richard Baldwin
Mini-Doc Producer/Editor (Original Website): Urica Pope
Curriculum Specialist: Andrea Thorpe
Research: Julie Jackson
Editors' Assistant: Sean Russell
Content Consultant: Dr. Gary Stone
Executive Producer (Original Website): John Bane
Special Thanks to Brandi Cook, Helen Meyers, and the City of Mullins.
Copyright 2002 City of Mullins. All Rights Reserved
