The cotton plant had a soft white boll nestled in a woody husk, rough enough to tear the cuticles and hands of pickers. Some teachers checked children's fingers for proof that they had been picking ...

Afara claims its cotton detection rate is fully 99.8 percent, with picking efficiency currently at 71% (of the “leftover” 20%), with a target picking efficiency rate at more than 90%.

When the Rust brothers produced their first picking machine, in 1935, a revolution in cotton farming was forecast. But mechanical cotton culture ran into many snags, has proved much more ...

Cotton is just a plant, and it's a magical plant at that. It was people that were oppressive and made us work like machines.” Julius Tillery speaks with ABC News.

The cotton plant, it will be thus seen, is a perennial. It knows nothing of decay or death till frost comes, and then, on the instant, its life and its yield perish together.

“She (S.W.) has uncontrollable anxiety attacks and has experienced bouts of depression when she thinks about the cotton picking project,” the lawsuit states. Her daughter attended Laurel Span ...

A North Carolina mother said that her child was the subject of a question regarding cotton picking during a lesson about the Industrial Revolution. The mother asked to remain anonymous to protect ...

U NION COUNTY, N.C. (WBTV) - A Union County mother said her Porter Ridge Middle School student was asked to pick cotton during a lesson about the Industrial Revolution this week.