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| John Walker, The Fresno Bee |
| Journalists have always looked out for the young and the exploited. The muckrakers of a century ago went into the coal mines of Pennsylvania and into the mills of New England to show children working 8 to 10 hours a day at dangerous tasks. During the '30s, they went into the cotton fields to report what they saw. Here is Edith, a 5-year-old in H.M. Lane's cotton field in Bells, Texas, whose aunt says proudly, "Edith's a good steady picker. Works all day long." Children are still being sent into the fields as John Walker shows us in his photo of a child in a Central Valley farm. |
