May 31, 2020
Picking Cotton - Little Red Walters (Picking Cotton Ain't Notin' But Gossip, 1965)
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Picking Cotton - Little Red Walters (Picking Cotton Ain't Notin' But Gossip, 1965)
The Cotton Fields: Picking Cotton.
https://youtu.be/95peU9XxNyY
The spirit of the ancestors live on. Naked!!
Memoir of a City Kid that Picked Cotton or How I Got My Fourth Grade Dictionary
Memoir of a City Kid that Picked Cotton or How I Got My Fourth Grade Dictionary
When I was a kid during the nineteen fifty’s, my family picked cotton for pennies a pound. No, we weren’t sharecroppers, and we didn’t live out in the country. We lived in the city, and a man driving a bus or a truck would pull up to the corner where we waited before daylight, and take us to the fields. It was hot, hard work. It hurt your back and your fingers and hands, and you did it from…
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