From the Mississippi Cotton Fields to the State Senate, a Memoir
by
David L. Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
In David L. Jordan's earliest memories, he is lying in the fields, the black earth beneath him and the sky and sun above, filtered through the leaves of the cotton plants. The youngest of five children in a family of sharecroppers, he was nursed and grew up in those fields, joining his family in their...