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Slave wages by the farmers they worked for. those children were taught he would later say that the end of life is in a spinach field, or a cotton patch. deprivation and discrimination, these were not abstractions to lyndon johnson. he knew poverty and injustice are as inseparable as opportunity and justice are joined. so that was in him. from an early age. now, like any of us, he was not a perfect man. his experiences in rural texas may have stretched his moral imagination, but he was ambitious.

Artistry came from would be the hardest part of a book. he comes from a cotton patch in arkansas and entries the field of country music and it turned out that was the dice, arkansas worked with his family every day as a child in the cotton patch, hot sun, and they sang gospel songs. they went to church, three times a week. they sang gospel songs and that gave them hope. his idea from a childhood was to make music that lifted peoples spirits. and that was his best music that did that. >> yeah, de...

Cottonpatch in arkansas given to his father by the federal government. his father was one of several destitute farmers given a second chance. and in that environment, he would go into the cotton field and pick cotton with his family in the hot sun, and they would sing gospel songs all day long to give them comfort. and then hed go to the baptist church three times a week, and they would again sing gospel songs to give them comfort. and it was that experience of seeing how music comforted people ...