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CNN story about James “Little Man” Presley- retiring after 72 years in the cotton fields of Mississippi

CNN.com’s Sr Producer, Wayne Drash, shares a part of history and his story as he opens up about how his great grandfather hired James “Little Man” Presley at the age of 5, following the death of his (James’s) father, to work the family’s cotton fields.  After 72 years of picking …

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