Ruby Duncan

Ruby Duncan rose from Louisiana cotton fields to become a Nevada force for change. Trace her early life and the roots of her welfare-rights activism.

(Editor's Note: This interview contains language that some listeners might find offensive)Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It comes at a time when…

This originally aired on March 14, 2012.Orphaned by age 4, a school dropout by the ninth grade, and a cotton-picker in rural Louisiana, Ruby Duncan moved…