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re: Anyone else’s great great grandparents pick cotton?
Posted on 6/5/22 at 5:48 pm to WhuckFistle
Posted on 6/5/22 at 5:48 pm to WhuckFistle
Both of my parents chopped and picked cotton. They're white folk, too. And I'm not old by any means.
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Posted on 6/5/22 at 5:49 pm to WhuckFistle
My grandpa who was born in the late 20s did, back then having numerous kids was a necessity to work the fields my mom said
Posted on 6/5/22 at 5:54 pm to WhuckFistle
Yes and I am White
Posted on 6/5/22 at 5:56 pm to WhuckFistle
Mine lived in England, no cotton there.
Posted on 6/5/22 at 5:57 pm to WhuckFistle
He’ll yeah….. still do today!
Posted on 6/5/22 at 5:58 pm to WhuckFistle
My mom stripped tobacco
Posted on 6/5/22 at 6:03 pm to WhuckFistle
My folks, and all the kids around them growing up in the area (white, black, brown....all of them), got out of school for around two weeks, not for some kind of "break", though. They got out to pick cotton. They may have also gotten out for a bit at the start of school to chop cotton. I know they chopped cotton during the Summer. This was during the late 50s into the 60s.
My Pops was working in the fields for three dollars a day after he graduated high school. He got three dollars a day, regardless what they did or how long they worked. The same year after graduation, he hired into a plant making three dollars an hour. Talk about someone thinking they were rich! Plants back then loved hiring farm boys because they knew what work was. Those same plants wouldn't hire anyone from the "city". Forty-four years later, Pops retired from that same plant/company.
My Pops was working in the fields for three dollars a day after he graduated high school. He got three dollars a day, regardless what they did or how long they worked. The same year after graduation, he hired into a plant making three dollars an hour. Talk about someone thinking they were rich! Plants back then loved hiring farm boys because they knew what work was. Those same plants wouldn't hire anyone from the "city". Forty-four years later, Pops retired from that same plant/company.
Posted on 6/5/22 at 6:29 pm to WhuckFistle
We were poor, my mom picked cotton as a child, her mom and my great grandmother are other people that grew up picking cotton.
Posted on 6/5/22 at 6:38 pm to WhuckFistle
Great? My Grandfather picked cotton in fields around Colfax.
Posted on 6/5/22 at 6:46 pm to WhuckFistle
Wife's grandparents picked cotton in Plaucheville, LA in the 30s and 40s.
Posted on 6/5/22 at 6:46 pm to WhuckFistle
But… but…. isn’t cotton racist?
/smdh
/smdh
This post was edited on 6/5/22 at 7:03 pm
Posted on 6/5/22 at 6:47 pm to WhuckFistle
My MIL did as a child in north Alabama. She’s as white as a navy bean.
Posted on 6/5/22 at 6:54 pm to WhuckFistle
My paternal grandparents picked cotton. My mom did as a child. Dad too.
Posted on 6/5/22 at 6:56 pm to WhuckFistle
Yes and great-grandfather cut sugar cane are well
Posted on 6/5/22 at 6:56 pm to NeonSunburst
Both my parents did in 50s and 60s.
Posted on 6/5/22 at 6:57 pm to WhuckFistle
My grandparents picked cotton in St. Helena Parish.
Posted on 6/5/22 at 7:07 pm to NewIberiaHaircut
quote:
My Grandfather picked cotton in fields around Colfax.
Was he at the Court House?
Posted on 6/5/22 at 7:09 pm to WhuckFistle
Back in the '30s, my mom and her siblings picked cotton, as did her mom, after my grandfather passed away. I didn't know the seed in cotton could puncture fingers until she told me about how theirs had bled.
They grew a garden, fished, and hunted. Back then, people worked at whatever job they could find, and worked hard to keep it.
She still has the backbone of a Titan.
They grew a garden, fished, and hunted. Back then, people worked at whatever job they could find, and worked hard to keep it.
She still has the backbone of a Titan.
Posted on 6/5/22 at 7:35 pm to Bamafig
Yep…. used to be the schools in north AL let out for a week or so in the fall for cotton picking.
Posted on 6/5/22 at 7:46 pm to George Dickel
My Dad and MiL picked cotton.
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