Enduring Years: A Migrant Cotton Picker's Memoir

In Enduring Years, Billie. G. Griffin, a migrant cotton picker, opens the files of his life. A compilation of stories about his life as a survivor during rough times, this memoir picks up where the slave narratives of Oklahoma leave off. It provides a raw and rare glimpse into the life of a sharecropper as it shares how Billie and his family endured decades of crushing povert, discrimination, and segregation in America, the South, and Oklahoma. It tells how sharecroppers weathered the harshest conditions since the end of slavery and how they tried to carve out a sustainable life and promise of a better future for their children.--Publisher's description.

• • Author: Dr. Gloria Griffin, Editor
• • Publisher: Iuniverse
• • Publication Date: May 31, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 96 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1491730927
• • ISBN-13: 9781491730928