Cotton Carnival

The land lay dry and cracked, unable to give life to those who depended on it for their lives. A drought, the fear of losing all brought men to church to pray for rain, to seek God's help, to try to figure out what to do. In the end, they left the farms and traveled to other places where they could work for wages. Some in factories, some in the orange groves in Florida, others in shipyards on the Gulf Coast. Some to big cotton farms. Wherever they went it was only temporary.