1.   The photographs of black cotton pickers, including young children, are reminders of the harsh reality underlying the glory.

2.   A former cotton picker, tobacco puller and truck driver, Jones considers his work in Congress the hardest he has ever done.

3.   His mother, a migrant cotton picker, was the first in her family to put herself through college.

4.   His parents were seasonal cotton pickers.

5.   The catalyst for the second was the automatic cotton picker.

6.   Early in his career, Cadena and colleague Gus Garcia were asked to appeal the murder conviction of migrant cotton picker Pete Hernandez.

7.   In Yazoo County, Mississippi, Norman Stephens and his twin brother, Homer, ran a trucking business, hauling cotton pickers to plantations.

8.   Jesse Owens was the son of a cotton picker and the grandson of slaves.

9.   They put to music the wails of the plowboys and cotton pickers out sweating in the scorching Mississippi sun.