He worked the fields when he was 6, the age of a typical kindergartner these days. “I was making 50 cents a day, from sunup to sundown.”
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This sounds suspicious. “Little Man” would have been 6 in 1936 and I can’t imagine someone paying him fifty cents a day at age 6. My father used to speak of working all day for fifty cents back then and he was a strong, healthy 6 foot 2 inch white man of 23 years who could read and write, measure land accurately, run a farm and do carpentry. I expect a 6 year old would have been lucky to get fifteen cents.
Another thing that sounds suspicious is that they say he was called “Little Man” because his father died when he was five and he had to step up and be the man of the house, yet it becomes clear later on that he was in fact the YOUNGEST of a large family. He had older sisters and brothers and evidently was called “Little Man” as a term of endearment for the baby of the family.