Washington, Calvin

Calvin Washington was born into a life of poverty that most of us would find incredible. At age 6, he was picking cotton in the hot, unforgiving Texas sun, working 13 hours a day. Water for drinking, bathing and washing clothes, came from a well about 50 yards away, by using a tin bucket. He used an outhouse and bathed in a galvanized tub of cold water. In the late 1960's, he finally had an indoor toilet. He never used the phone because there was none to use. Extreme poverty and cultural barriers were a part of daily life. He wanted to be free of cotton, poverty, racism, social injustice and o...