There is something highly imitative, not to say positively simian, about the endeavor of the Colored National Alliance to foment a general strike of the cotton pickers. Like all other men ...
“As a senior in high school, I remember switching to a module builder, and moving away from cotton trailers,” Bailey recalls. “By itself, that change was huge because it meant a picker ...
When a 13-year-old came home from school and showed her mother the bag of cotton she had received from a teacher, her mother took to social media to express her outrage, according to an Illinois ...
Naseem Mallah, a cotton picker who participated in the literacy programme, shared her experience, saying: "Earlier, I couldn't even write my name or read a clock. Now, I can tell time and write my ...
A cotton picker harvests a field in Shihezi, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on Sept 24. CAI ZENGLE/FOR CHINA DAILY URUMQI — Although close to the desert, a cotton field on the outskirts of ...
Some particularly sparse fields may not be harvested at all, as operating a cotton picker in that situation could damage machinery, he added. The hurricane is compounding an already difficult year ...