Cotton Picking Boy

About the Book

Reader, be forewarned, no happy ending here. Most histories were written from the top, looking down. This is from the bottom up, by teenage boys and their observations on: black and white cotton pickers, “planters versus workers,” con men, hucksters, KKK, preachers, politicians, bootleggers, slavery and slave-hunters during the Great Depression, and rising war clouds—coming Draft.

About the Author

Born on Sept. 22, 1921, in Scott County, Arkansas, Alvin H. Clement attended three different one room schools in Scott and Washington Counties. He has had three years of high school education, two years Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and served for four years in the U.S. Army, at the First Signal Service Co., Alaska Communications System, and 60th Radio Intelligence Company. He received a BS in Geology-Physics from the University of Arkansas. Clement spent forty-seven years working in oil exploration in the U.S., North Africa, West African Coast, North Sea, Indonesia, and Coast of Brazil. He is a member of the Dallas-Ft. Worth Writers Group, and Writer’s Garret in Dallas, Texas.