My name is Marvin Jenkins, the son of the late Mack Jenkins and May Bell King Jenkins-sharecroppers in Ashley County, a small community called Milo, Arkansas. To this union with thirteen siblings, I was number thirteen, lucky me! I started and finished high school in Ashley. I attended college in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, at AM and N, a state college agriculture, mechanical and normal College. I was there for three semesters, worked for the state work aid program. I had trouble with the superintendent over my hours worked; that was the summer of 1967. From there was a downward path, serving time in Angola and LCIS, a Louisiana state penal system. I was a teacher at LCIS, teaching adult education.
