Out of the Cotton Fields (and into the classroom): A memoir of a long row to hoe

by Horace Gerald Danner

Out of the Cotton Fields traces the life of Horace Danner, the youngest of ten children in an impoverished Alabama family to whom hunger was a constant companion and a hardscrabble existence was a fact of life. But the young sharecropper's son realized early on that the one key toward a better future was education. Challenged at every turn but determined to triumph over misfortune, he found escape in the pages of books and sanctuary in the classroom.

282 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999