21.   I knew that was the last time I was going to pick cotton.

22.   In both countries, the majority of people live outside the capital, where about the only honest work is picking cotton.

23.   In the spring, we stayed out of school to help plant cotton, and in the fall we stayed home to help pick cotton.

24.   It was a long way, in every sense, from the Texas migrant trail Dad had traveled to help his family pick cotton.

25.   Just as Dunham participated in spirit-possession rituals in Haiti, Pearl Primus picked cotton in Alabama.

26.   Most of his days are spent picking cotton, going to town or having picnics.

27.   Mrs. McCoy had to drop out of school in the third grade and go to work picking cotton and figured that Garland had a better life than hers.

28.   Mildred Council picked cotton as a little girl, helping her family scratch out a living on their small farm.

29.   Picked cotton as a child.

30.   Reared in Drew, Miss., he grew up picking cotton as a young man and hearing a cappella gospel singing at home and in church.