John Daniel Rust was born on Sept. 6, 1892, near Necessity, Texas. His father, Benjamin Daniel Rust, was a Civil War veteran, a farmer and a school teacher, while his mother, Susan Minerva Burnett, ...

Ben Pearson, who was born at Paron in Saline County in 1898, became known as the Father of Modern Archery. In the 1920s, Pearson made his first bow. He finished next-to-last at the 1926 state archery ...

Blytheville, Ark. had never seen so many folks before. On Ross Hughes’s farm there were 15,000 of them—come from as fur away as Texas to see the first annual cotton-picking championship of the U. S.

I was born in 1967, during the height of the civil rights movement in the countryside of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, a small town in the heart of the Mississippi Delta. One of the persons that I came to ...

Every fall, Yang Qizhi treks thousands of miles from Henan province to the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region to pick cotton. For the past eight years, the 52-year-old has earned about 13,000 yuan ...

The Sindh Community Foundation (SCF) has set up five literacy centres for women cotton-pickers in Matiari district of Sindh in order to improve basic literacy among the rural women. The initiative has ...

Editor's note: Part of a series looking at the debate surrounding some high school mascots as Washington's NFL team and others have announced changes in 2020. Twenty miles west of Corpus Christi, ...