Tundra Lucas was picking cotton at 10 years of age. Despite mechanization of the cotton harvest, children continued to work in the cotton fields of Mississippi well into the 1980s. Mississippi, in fact, did not enact a compulsory education law until the mid-1980s. Bolivar County, Mississippi (1978). 
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