A class trip to teach students about the Great Depression, has a South Carolina mom upset after she learned her child instead ended up picking cotton in a field while singing old negro spirituals.

A mother from South Carolina claimed that her son and his classmates went on a field trip for Black History Month where they were told to pick cotton and sing a slave song. Jessica Blanchard told WJZY ...

TOLEDO (AP) - Some parents at a northwest Ohio middle school say they were shocked to hear an eighth-grade choir sing about picking cotton not long after students in the district took photos and ...

During a school field trip, students were told to pick cotton and sing slave songs. The incident occurred with students who attend Ebenezer Avenue elementary school in Rock Hill, North Carolina, ...

A South Carolina mother was outraged after her 10-year-old son was told to pick cotton and sing a “slave song” while on an elementary school field trip -- but the school defended the activity, saying ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Some parents at an Ohio middle school have said they were shocked to hear an eighth-grade choir sing about picking cotton just days after other students in the district took photos ...