Did whites ever pick cotton was that only done by blacks. I assume now days cotton is pick by sophisticated machines with well trained equipment operators.
Thousands of whites picked cotton.
Mechanization of cotton picking didn’t happen until 1943 when International Harvester produced seven machines. Machine picking of cotton was the last harvesting process on the farm to be mechanized. One, the process was difficult to perfect. Two, cheap labor tended to put off machine development, and three, there was a lot of social resistance as even the first machines available could replace 30 workers, and I’ve heard from an old boy who used to hand pick (he’s white BTW) that the real number is closer to 50.