| 单词 | sharecropper |
| 例句 | At night, seated at a crude table, with a kerosene lamp spluttering at my elbow, I would fill out insurance applications, and a sharecropper family, fresh from laboring in the fields, would stand and gape. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Said so many crops was blowed away that lots of sharecroppers starved and even the Tanners got sunk so low they had to sell off some slaves. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z He decided to continue working for Ito six days a week, except Sundays, and to be a sharecropper. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z She was a poor sharecropper’s daughter who happened to be very smart. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z By the 1950s, small cotton farming was becoming increasingly less profitable, even with the low-wage labor provided by black sharecroppers and tenants. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Joe and other sharecroppers went to see the rancher to tell him what was happening. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Like the year before, we had spent the summer months picking strawberries for Ito, the Japanese sharecropper. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z On the night of September 30, 1919, some one hundred African American sharecroppers attended a meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America at a black church three miles north of Elaine, Arkansas. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I guess they was sharecroppers on the farm. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The breach allows for the efficient sorting of the plundered from the plunderers, the enslaved from the enslavers, sharecroppers from landholders, cannibals from food. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Jackie Robinson is the grandson of a slave, the son of a sharecropper, raised in poverty by a lone mother who took in ironing and washing. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z We sat on the porch in a semicircle in camp chairs, me between the sharecropper and the millionaire. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z According to her, John Henry was a farmer, a former slave turned sharecropper, who got arrested for something ridiculous. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z It looked to be a good harvest this year, though in the way of sharecroppers, they had to pay off the landowner first. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew they wouldn’t have a telephone in a sharecropper’s shack, so trying to call him wouldn’t have done any good. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z There are no records of Fannie’s life, but she was most likely born a slave on the Lacks property, and like most Lacks slaves who stayed on the plantation as sharecroppers, she never left. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Black sharecroppers, cotton pickers, and miners making even lower wages in Alabama jumped at the chance. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z His father was a sharecropper who moved the family to new land every few years. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z A half a mile east of it were hundreds of acres of strawberries cultivated by Japanese sharecroppers and harvested by people from the camp. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Papá showed them his green card, which Ito, the Japanese sharecropper for whom we picked strawberries, had helped him get years before. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z The estate included an entire village, whose inhabitants, most of them Indian, were its sharecroppers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The white man who owned the vast endless fields had scattered the cabins of his Negro sharecroppers far apart, like flyspecks on a whitewashed ceiling. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Papá often talked about becoming a strawberry sharecropper and not having to work for someone else. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Eventually old man Gusdorf had gotten royally skinned when the bottom fell out of cotton, and he wound up relegated to a sharecropper’s role forever after. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z One Sunday, near the end of the strawberry season, Ito sent me to work for a sharecropper who was sick and needed extra help that day. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z They liked to call me "field slave" and "sharecropper." Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When he did not see any change, he checked with other sharecroppers: their plants were dying too. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Most, though, were contract farmers or sharecroppers who worked in fields owned by hakujin. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z ‘That’s why I left Mississippi. Because I didn’t want to be a sharecropper picking cotton.’ Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z His parents had been sharecroppers who moved north and became a machinist and a nurse. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “Because you got a chance—a real chance—of being something other than a sharecropper. Your brothers and sister are strong. Good workers. But they don’t got what you got.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Father of two, Alabama native, and son of a sharecropper, Lester Charles Walker was one of American Street’s very first black residents in 1947. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The rancher provided the land and plants, but the sharecroppers were responsible for everything else. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z So when Papá found out that a rancher was looking for sharecroppers, he felt torn. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z He sent a white farmer to prison for a year for forcing an indebted sharecropper to work without pay, a form of enslavement commonly winked at by Southern courts. A South Carolina Judge Writes a Book About a Predecessor, an Unsung Giant of Civil Rights Law 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z Tyson earned an Oscar nomination for her role in “Sounder,” where she played a Depression-era loving wife of a sharecropper who is confined in jail for stealing a piece of meat for his family. Cicely Tyson paved way for Black actors to follow footsteps 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z The Spanish governor has redesigned the labor system so badly that most sharecroppers live as virtual slaves. Review | ‘The Taste of Sugar’ offers a thrilling look at Puerto Rico’s history through the tale of one couple’s struggle to survive 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z Slim, the son of Mississippi sharecroppers, gave up the piano and turned to guitar after losing his right pinky finger in a cotton gin accident at age 13. Chicago bluesman Magic Slim dead at 75 2013-02-22T04:08:38Z Thornton Dial was born on Sept. 10, 1928, in Emelle, Ala., on a former cotton plantation where members of his extended family worked as sharecroppers. Thornton Dial, Outsider Artist Whose Work Told of Black Life, Dies at 87 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z The program shows Hamer’s legacy as an advocate for voting and women’s rights and explains how she went from working as a sharecropper in Mississippi to organizing grass-roots campaigns. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches’ and Awards Shows 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z I love his nimble movement around the sharecropper cabins and the way he pans from the main action to frame the dogs and the cats at the character's feet. The Birth of a Nation: a gripping masterpiece … and a stain on history 2013-07-29T14:31:08Z Like Ray Charles, his contemporary and in some ways his only equal, who was similarly addicted to playing with a big band, King had a lot of forties jazz mixed into his sharecropper soul. B. B. King’s Inimitable Sound 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z The sharecroppers are weirder versions of “Tobacco Road” types. Review: ‘Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag,’ by Sibyl Kempson 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z A sharecropper’s daughter who became the only woman to serve as Delaware’s governor. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z The residents, an extended clan of sharecroppers, grow tobacco, lentils and chickpeas on land belonging to an aristocratic family. ‘Happy as Lazzaro’ Review: This Modern Fairy Tale Is an Instant Classic 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z The only difference is that on Facebook the sharecroppers don't get any share of the proceeds. To the internet giants, you're not a customer. You're just another user 2013-06-08T23:05:23Z All-Star Weekend, and “The Cotton Bowl,” which depicts a mirror image of a crouching college football player and a sharecropper picking cotton. Creator of Divisive King Monument Builds Sculpture for Super Bowl 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z The museum wants to be a place where descendants of Southern slave owners can engage with black history alongside the descendants of African American sharecroppers. Painful but crucial: Why you’ll see Emmett Till’s casket at the African American museum 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z “My mother came from a family of sharecroppers, old slaves, and I can remember the history.” ‘A way we resist’: Quilts honor victims of racial violence 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z The remaining characters are maids, sharecroppers, criminal-drifter types, impoverished housewives and destitute girls. What Does the Academy Value in a Black Performance? 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z In preserved slave quarters and a historic church, Ms. Tanner gives an affecting account of how life was lived during slavery and in the sharecropper era that followed it. The American Queen Paddle-Wheeler Cruises on the Mississippi 2012-06-01T19:22:58Z The Black interviewees, children of sharecroppers, recall an atmosphere of poverty, racism and bloody violence; their white counterparts, members of landowning families, remember a “peaceful, almost idyllic place.” ‘Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power’ Review: A Movement That Changed America 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z She was the 10th child of a tobacco sharecropper of Irish descent. 'The Brady Bunch' Mom Florence Henderson Has Died 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z This is true of the white sharecropper and black cotton picker in the Deep South panel. Thomas Hart Benton’s ‘America Today’ Mural at the Met 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z The Shack Up Inn, a collection of converted sharecropper huts, with old pick-up trucks and rusting farm machinery on the lawns, offered an unexpectedly charming place to stay. Mississippi yearning 2010-12-04T00:05:15Z Yet the winner in general nonfiction — the category was then called contemporary affairs — was “All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw,” an oral history of an illiterate black Alabama sharecropper. Critic’s Notebook: ‘All God’s Dangers,’ a Forgotten Autobiography 2014-04-18T21:44:48Z In "Drought," those consequences are specific: They involve the suicide of a sharecropper named Miguel, who drowns himself in a sluice channel, death by water at the very moment water has become most scarce. In Ronald Fraser's 'Drought,' outsider gets in path of village's future 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z The eighth child of sharecroppers, Walker grew up in segregated Georgia. Alice Walker 2011-03-08T00:05:48Z He also talks of his deep connection with his "teacher," a former sharecropper in Mississippi named Walter Carter, who died recently at 102. Review: Ralph Lemon makes his NW debut with fascinating, moving work 2010-11-19T21:27:00Z Mr. King was born in 1925, the son of sharecroppers in Mississippi. Artists Respond to B. B. King's Death on Social Media 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z The viewer might see the fall from rural poverty to urban destitution as a tragedy, but the former sharecroppers are more interested in survival than sentimentality. ‘Happy as Lazzaro’ Review: This Modern Fairy Tale Is an Instant Classic 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Mr. Morgan plays her sharecropper husband, and he’s the best thing in the movie. For Your Reconsideration: Supporting Whom Exactly? 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Inspired by “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,” Walker Evans and James Agee’s photojournalistic account of poor American sharecroppers, the work is a little bit Steinbeck and a little bit “Oklahoma!” Copeland’s ‘The Tender Land’ Is Revived by Chelsea Opera 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Steinbeck's Joad family, and the other Dust Bowl sharecroppers who headed West seeking work and respect, made similar journeys as those who participated in the Great Migration. Genealogy class sprouts tale of Great Migration 2011-01-14T23:06:00Z But in Italy, serene yet impressive buildings form part of an estate system owned by aristocrats and farmed by sharecroppers. Ferruccio Ferragamo 2009-11-01T00:00:00Z That afternoon, a thunderstorm whipped across the Tallahatchie Flats, where we were staying in a renovated sharecropper hut. Four women, four states, one inspiring Southern road trip 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z These women may not have been machinists or sharecroppers, but they were still a class of workers whose problems required redress. What Kind of Worker Is a Writer? 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z “I’m returning to my family’s farming roots,” said Lee, whose grandfather was a sharecropper in Texas. African Americans shake up wine industry stereotypes 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z In the late 1940s she was accused, with her two sons, of killing a white sharecropper. For Auctions, It’s ‘No Froth,’ but ‘Steady.’ That’s the New Normal. 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z His father was a sharecropper, and the family lived in a house with no electricity. Paul Prudhomme, celebrated chef of Cajun cuisine, dies at 75 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z The youngest of thirteen children reared by sharecroppers, he had learned to cook from his mother, and from the event stage he delivered serious, soulful thoughts about the emotional experience of eating. Two Days with Paul Prudhomme 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z He had loved the sound of black gospel music and sharecropper work songs since he was a child. Review: ‘Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ’n’ Roll,’ by Peter Guralnick 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z In spare, direct prose, she takes readers into the world of African-American sharecroppers in the Jim Crow South. “Coming of Age in Mississippi” still speaks to nation’s racial discord 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z In the event, as peace returned to the American South and former slaves became sharecroppers, the global industry recovered quickly, helped by a surge in demand. Spinning tales 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Chief among his collaborators in recent years has been Walter Carter, a former sharecropper born in 1908. Dance Review: Grappling With Grief, And Then With Bodies 2010-10-15T22:57:00Z They donated chains, hinges, chandelier pieces, candlesticks, serving platters . . . even a shovel, the blade of which now adheres to Anarcha’s thigh, as a way “to honor sharecroppers,” Browder said. The statue of a doctor who experimented on enslaved women still stands in Alabama. But now there’s also a monument to his victims. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Her father was a sharecropper, and the family struggled financially. Florence Henderson, Upbeat Mom of ‘The Brady Bunch,’ Dies at 82 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z The land he wants to purchase isn’t just any plot — it belonged to Sutter, the white man whose ancestors owned the Charles family as slaves and who employed Boy Willie as a sharecropper. When Black Characters Double-Deal to Make Ends Meet, It’s Never Enough 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z Guy grew up in a family of Louisiana sharecroppers. Highway marker honoring blues singer Buddy Guy goes missing 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z The film begins with your upbringing in Jim Crow Georgia, one of eight children, the daughter of sharecroppers. Alice Walker: 'I feel dedicated to the whole of humanity' 2013-03-09T17:00:01Z His gifts lift the Littles from sharecroppers to landowners, thus providing sustenance for generations. From Sharecropping to the Voting Booth in 3 Generations 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z I didn't understand that the school of his day taught the whole human being because their parents were sharecroppers. Killer Mike on America: "We've failed, but we can change it" 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z Four sharecropper cabins sketched in the 1940s by Samella Lewis have a mean, shutdown and abandoned look. Art Meets Its Soundtrack Deep in ‘The Dirty South’ 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z The Grammy winner is nearly unrecognizable playing Florence, the wife of a sharecropper in 1940s Mississippi. Tiffany Haddish and Mary J. Blige are among nine movie scene-stealers from 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Andrews, the son of Georgia sharecroppers, was an early supporter of the Ogden, and, until his death in 2006, a trustee. Showcasing the Diversity of the South 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z His father, an accomplished banjo player, was a sharecropper and welder who eventually moved the family to Portland, Me., where he worked for many years at a shipyard. Johnny Smith, Venerable Jazz Guitarist, Dies at 90 2013-06-18T14:13:23Z Guy, born into a family of sharecroppers with no electricity or running water in Louisiana, said he's still pinching himself after hearing about the honor. Hoffman, Letterman among Kennedy Center honorees 2012-09-12T16:37:08Z Her family were sharecroppers, responsible for thousands of acres of wheat, corn and soybeans. True Love Can Leave Traces. S.G. Goodman’s Detailed Songs Do, Too. 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Cummings grew up in Baltimore the son of two former sharecroppers from South Carolina who moved to Baltimore and became preachers. Elijah Cummings endured two painful years. Soon he’ll be more powerful than ever. 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z I don’t want to be sidetracked from my dreams, like my father, who enlisted as a soldier to escape the life of a sharecropper. Street of the Iron Po(e)t, Part XII 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z “They were sharecroppers involved in the rice strikes and struck to be paid in cash rather than scrip,” a form of credit often extended to sharecroppers in lieu of cash. Who is the NAACP's new president, Cornell William Brooks? No one knows exactly when they were built, or when the generations of people who lived in them started calling themselves renters instead of tenant farmers or sharecroppers. Her Family Owned Slaves. How Can She Make Amends? 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z You are the eighth child of a sharecropper — not so different from your heroine. Alice Walker and Colm Toibin, and Their Trail of Words 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z Her parents were sharecroppers who often traveled to work, leaving Turner and her older sister Ruby Aillene on their own. Simply the best: Tina Turner has died but leaves a legacy of endurance and resurgence 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Cypress trees grew in the bayous and creeks snaked through large swaths of farmland, which were worked by sharecroppers, whose own poverty was often bleaker than that of those in the camps. The Japanese-American Sculptor Who, Despite Persecution, Made Her Mark 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z This is where Walker Evans made his photographs of white sharecropper families for “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men” with James Agee’s text, a core document of Depression-era poverty. In Hale County, Alabama, Two Visions of Place 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Charley Pride, the son of a Mississippi sharecropper who went on to become the first Black superstar in country music, died on Saturday in hospice care in Dallas. Charley Pride, Country Music’s First Black Superstar, Dies at 86 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z Walker Evans-like pictures show people living in extreme poverty in sharecropper cabins. Art in Review: Bruce Davidson: ‘Time of Change: Civil Rights Photographs, 1961-1965’ 2013-08-15T21:28:56Z Pops’s father was a sharecropper, and his grandfather had been a slave. Books of The Times: ‘I’ll Take You There,’ by Greg Kot 2014-02-20T13:00:01Z A consideration of how stories are told and who gets to tell them, it centers on a family of sharecroppers visited by a photographer and a journalist from the big city. Review: ‘Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag,’ by Sibyl Kempson 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Rohrwacher’s third feature starts out as a simple fable of rural Italian life, centered on a simple young man living among fellow sharecroppers in an isolated hamlet. The Best Movies of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Reconstruction offered few opportunities for Black men eking out an existence as sharecroppers or unskilled laborers. On Father's Day, Black dads and the fragility of our fortune 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z I sometimes think it’s having grown up as the daughter of sharecroppers. Alice Walker and Colm Toibin, and Their Trail of Words 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z Their targets were people who had left the Jim Crow South in search of wartime industrial labor, or sought to organize sharecroppers’ unions, or simply laid claim to property and public space. Antagonist, Activist, Operator, Survivor 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z Though his followers disavow any claims about Divine’s past, court documents from the early days of the Peace Mission identify Father Major Jealous Divine as George Baker Jr., the son of freedman sharecroppers. The divine inspiration of Jim Jones: Inside the mind of one of history’s deadliest cult leaders 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z "It's Hollywood's version of being a sharecropper," the lawsuit states. 'Go-to' L.A. lawyer says Hollywood studios are shortchanging his clients 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Glenn Campbell was the son of a sharecropper. U.S. country star Patty Griffin gets Londoners stomping 2013-11-18T13:57:30Z He wrote in the book that his father bought a guitar for $8 from a sharecropper and Edwards learned to play in 1929. Bluesman David 'Honey Boy' Edwards dead at 96 2011-08-30T00:32:17Z After nearly two years spent working as sharecroppers in South Carolina, they returned to Harlem, and Mildred and her siblings got a fresh view of the so-called black promised land. A Young Black Girl’s View of Harlem at the Height of the Great Migration 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z In “Annabelle,” a poor sharecropper whose young daughter has died reflects, “Till we’ve all / Gone to Jesus / We can only / Wonder why.” Twenty Years of Listening to Gillian Welch 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z The son of a black sharecropper who became a Baptist preacher and businessman, Maxwell was known as fastidious, charismatic and hard-working. Review | Harper Lee tried to turn a murder trial into a true crime masterpiece. What happened to the book? 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Her performance as a sharecropper’s wife in the 1972 movie “Sounder” cemented her stardom and earned her an Oscar nomination. Throng of fans pay respects at actor Cicely Tyson’s viewing 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z In the show were images of sharecropper families in the South for which Evans is still best known. Art Review: Walker Evans’s ‘American Photographs,’ at MoMA 2013-07-18T20:50:03Z Johnson grew up in the Mississippi Delta with his mother and stepfather, an illiterate sharecropper. A Biography of a Blues Legend, Five Decades in the Making 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z The stories are drawn from oral histories that she has conducted, including those of African Americans whose not-too-distant forebears were sharecroppers. An artist captures the ‘ghost voices’ of abandoned houses 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Ms. Charles, 61, is descended from sharecroppers and, before them, slaves. Dora Charles Moves On From Paula Deen, and Makes It All About the Seasoning 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z I’m the granddaughter of sharecroppers on both sides. ‘What we’ve seen since covid has been a precipitous increase in need,’ says Feeding America CEO 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z The first took place early, and was almost undone later: Operation Barga, by which land was "redistributed" from landlords to sharecroppers and peasants in rural Bengal. Amit Chaudhuri: my new perspective on Calcutta 2013-02-02T07:01:14Z Family men worked as sharecroppers, then as coal miners, then as steelworkers; families inched their way toward prosperity, often moving north in pursuit of work. The Lives of Poor White People 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z He is best known, of course, for the photographs of Southern sharecropper families enduring the Great Depression in the mid-1930s, images immortalized in James Agee’s “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,” published in 1941. Art: Let Us Now Praise a Pioneering Show 2013-07-12T17:59:09Z Ms. Clark makes everything she sings seem classy, including “Us,” a ballad about the resilience of her sharecropper people. Music Review: Collegiate Choral, With Jane Fonda, in a Concert Version 2010-03-23T22:18:00Z A shanty-style screened porch, reminiscent of sharecropper shacks, opens to the dining room plastered with old license plates, where local bands set up. Blue Levee: Mississippi Comfort Food 2010-04-28T22:24:00Z Nor the history of Black communism, which connected sharecroppers in Alabama to nut-pickers in St. Louis to Black radical activists and intellectuals of lasting import. Antagonist, Activist, Operator, Survivor 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z One of his fellow sharecroppers was Chester Burnett, a.k.a. She’s still taking us there: Mavis Staples soars again in late career 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z It’s about the dead: the field hands, housekeepers, single mothers, sharecroppers, brick workers, postmen, shoe repairmen, Pullman porters and maids — Mrs. Obama’s relatives all, plain people who owned no property and left no writings. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: The First Lady's Family 2012-06-15T18:13:58Z You can understand then why Clyde, the son of a sharecropper, and Bonnie, a two-bit waitress with movie-star fantasies, might want to break away and go wild. | 'Bonnie & Clyde': ?Bonnie & Clyde,? With Laura Osnes and Jeremy Jordan - Review 2011-12-02T03:37:52Z Hale County, Ala., is where Walker Evans documented in photographs the lives of white sharecroppers in the Depression era; Evans, with the writer James Agee, created the still-moving book “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.” Review: A Multiplicity of Moments in Under 80 Minutes in ‘Hale County’ 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Her father, a sharecropper, couldn't afford to pay the doctor who delivered her and so gave him a sack of cornmeal, leading to Parton's oft-repeated joke about how she's been "making dough ever since". Dolly Parton: 'I may look fake but I'm real where it counts' 2011-08-21T19:00:00Z Curtis’s ninth novel is among his most suspenseful, an adventure story about a white sharecropper’s son in antebellum South Carolina. In New Novels for Kids, Dangerous Journeys and Hockey Madness 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z After emancipation, Traylor spent much of his life as a sharecropper, and only started making art in his 80s, when he was living on the streets of Montgomery. Bill Traylor’s Outsider Art Veers Into the Mainstream 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z After the enslaved people on the farm were freed, many had to stay on as sharecroppers to earn clothes and food. Black History Trail Makes 200 Stops Across Massachusetts 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Brown was an African American, the son of a sharecropper from Mississippi. 'Devotion' gets into cockpit of 2 U.S. pilots who bond in Korean War 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z I’ve never not felt successful… My grandfather had a second grade education, he was a sharecropper, I don’t even know if my grandmother had a birth certificate. Tamron Hall on How Not Getting Jobs Helped Her Succeed 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z James Henry Cotton was born July 1, 1935, in Tunica, Miss. His parents were sharecroppers. James Cotton, hard-blowing harmonica master of the blues, dies at 81 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z A Black sharecropper impregnates his wife as well as, in a dream state, his teenage daughter, then takes an ax to the cheek from his wife in retribution and somehow survives to sing the blues. Surreal Encounters in Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z He did not know his father, and his mother was a sharecropper. Thornton Dial, who turned scrap metal, animal bones and other found objects into museum art, dies at 87 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Campbell was one of 12 children born to a sharecropper father in Pike County, Arkansas. Glen Campbell: One last love song 2011-08-26T22:01:04Z The life of a poet — a "literary sharecropper," as he ruefully dubbed himself — was numbingly prosaic. 'Selected Letters of Langston Hughes' a glimpse of enigmatic poet 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z King, who rose from sharecropper in the area's flat cotton fields to worldwide fame as a blues singer and guitarist who influenced generations of entertainers. B.B. King's funeral draws hundreds in Mississippi 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z Born to sharecroppers in rural Georgia and raised in homes without electricity or indoor plumbing, Walker became an activist and a prolific writer, with 41 books across genres. Alice Walker Has ‘No Regrets’ 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z Bertie Bowman, 92, the son of South Carolina sharecroppers who arrived at the U.S. This week’s passages 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z But first Unruh, a Texas sharecropper’s son who understood white racism, rose on the Assembly floor and cautioned colleagues about the political dangers of getting too far ahead of the citizenry. Column: How a racist housing policy caused the biggest, bitterest brawl in California’s Capitol 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z When the National Labor Relations Act was passed in 1935, Black sharecroppers were doing most of the agricultural work in the South, and Asian and Latino workers were working in the West. Advocates ramp up support in Seattle for farmworker union recognition 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z But also he grew up in a rough-and-tumble era, he grew up as a sharecropper. 'Black Godfather' director Reginald Hudlin on Clarence Avant: 'His effect is literally immeasurable' 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z Meisner had a rough first act: he was born in Nebraska, to sharecroppers, married at 14, and dropped out of school to scratch out a few dollars on the Midwest bar circuit. 'He had the most beautiful voice': On the Eagles' 'Take It to the Limit,' Randy Meisner truly soared 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z His parents, sharecroppers from Texas, were part of a wave of migrant farmworkers who came to California after World War II in search of work. Tulare Lake’s ghostly rebirth brings wonder — and hardship. Inside a community's resilience 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z It’s a story about her great-grandfather, a Georgia sharecropper cheated by a crooked plantation owner out of compensation. A new way of looking at Juneteenth 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Debt bondage also trapped many people, including African American sharecroppers in the United States and female textile workers in Japan. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Teaching life skills and values, Umoja said, has its roots in freedom schools started during the Civil Rights Movement, in response to the inferior “sharecropper’s education” Black Americans were receiving in the South. Black parents seek schools affirming their history amid bans 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z He likely worked as a sharecropper, according to an account of his lynching prepared by the Equal Justice Initiative. Prince George’s remembers the county’s first known lynching victim 2023-04-15T04:00:00Z All of this scrutiny came about partly because in 1973, a Black sharecropper’s son, Tom Bradley, was elected mayor. Patt Morrison: The naked truth about L.A.'s swanky private clubs 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z The play follows a day in the life of a Black sharecropper and his family, living amid the ruins of an old plantation, alongside a poor white family who reside in a decaying slave mansion. The New Black Canon: Books, Plays and Poems That Everyone Should Know 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z From emancipated sharecroppers to domestic servants, laundresses, blacksmiths and carpenters, Black laborers used apparel as a creative outlet amid dire conditions and despite limited resources, says the brand. L.A. spring won't arrive soon enough. These 12 pop-ups and events will help you get ready 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z In 1924, among the thousands of Black Americans moving west was a Texas sharecropper family named Bradley. The Hollywood sign debuted 100 years ago in 1923, the year of L.A.'s 'Big Bang' 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Sims’ grandfather Theodore Turner was a sharecropper in Louisiana and protested white farmers being paid more for their cotton than Black farmers were. New WA labor council president April Sims brings lived experiences 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z "It was one of the few places where black Americans were allowed to work outside of being sharecroppers in the South." Half a spoon - the most sentimental items in our kitchens 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z It was the work of men and women like Magnin that helped to forge the coalition that elected Tom Bradley, the sharecroppers’ son from Texas, as L.A.’s first Black mayor. Jewish communities thrived in early L.A. — and helped the city thrive 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z He’s the grandson of sharecroppers who made a living by “beating it out of the ground,” as he once put it, yet he somehow built a fortune. Jerry Jones helped transform the NFL, except when it comes to race Born March 12, 1909, in South Carolina, the sharecropper’s daughter spent decades upon retirement doing volunteer work at schools. This week’s passages 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z Lives Lived: Virginia McLaurin was born a sharecroppers’ daughter in the Jim Crow South. Why the Crypto Collapse Matters 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Born March 12, 1909 in South Carolina, the sharecropper’s daughter spent decades upon retirement doing volunteer work at schools. Virginia McLaurin, who danced with the Obamas, dies at 113 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z One of Holly Bass’s suite of self-images, set in a cotton field to recall her father’s sharecropper past, is printed on gauzy material stretched across a mirror to give a sense of shifting levels. Review | In the galleries: Sobering reminders of gun violence 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z Jackson’s ancestors were sharecroppers in Prince George’s County during the Reconstruction era, and her family’s history with horses began as they were tasked with caring for work mules and horses, she said. These Pr. George’s teens are bucking tropes and snatching championships 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z She spent summer vacations with her father’s family in Pennsylvania, where her Black grandfather had worked as a sharecropper. How racism skewed estimates of heart disease in women 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z “I felt like a sharecropper on the interstate,” he later said. Mike Davis, 'City of Quartz' author who chronicled the forces that shaped L.A., dies 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z When others came to L.A. — the Chinese railroad workers, the Black sharecroppers escaping the brutality of Jim Crow, the Mexican bricklayers fleeing revolution and the dissolution of their rural economy — the response was exclusion. L.A.’s love of sprawl made it America's most overcrowded place. Poor people pay a deadly price 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z She knew that her third great-grandparents, Jane Hamilton and Owen Hood, had been sharecroppers in Harris County, Ga., and that they were buried in Pierce Chapel African Cemetery. Nearly ‘Erased by History’: African Americans Search for Lost Graves 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z Stretching along a swath of north Florida once dominated by tobacco and cotton plantations, it had drawn together Black communities largely populated by the descendants of sharecroppers and slaves. Ron DeSantis blew up Black-held congressional districts — and may have broken Florida law 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z They were sharecroppers, and worked hard to find their footing there. Hurricane Ian: Bigotry couldn't beat this family - then came the storm 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Although he was strong in math and science, as one of 11 children of sharecroppers in segregated Danville, Va., “I never had a burning in my soul to join NASA.” Perspective | NASA achievement headlines ‘Sammies’ honors for federal workers 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z The son of a sharecropper growing up in rural Alabama, he said as a little boy he was in constant fear because of signs that said “no colored boys, no colored girls.” Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Large farms often cut production by laying off sharecroppers or evicting tenant farmers, making the program even worse for them than for small farm owners. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Dahn, now 76, remembers being a kid in South Carolina, where his uncles were sharecroppers. Teaching the next generation of Black horseback riders 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z “It has also been used as a tenant sharecroppers cabin and a medical office for local farmers and their families to visit the plantation doctor.” Airbnb apologizes after Miss. ‘slave cabin’ is listed as luxury getaway 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z He worked as a sharecropper for most of his young life, dropping out of school before finishing third grade. Eugene Bishop, Maryland World War II vet, celebrates 100th birthday 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z The San Diego Reader reported that Mr. Morrow’s father saved enough as a sharecropper, with a side operation in bootleg whiskey, to pay for his son to attend barber school in San Diego. Willie Lee Morrow, pioneer of Black hair care and styling, dies at 82 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Landlords evicted sharecroppers, and even those who owned their land outright had to abandon it when there was no way to earn any income. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Ravenell, 62, was born to sharecroppers and had 11 siblings, growing up in extreme poverty in South Carolina. Baltimore lawyer sentenced for money laundering scheme 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z Karen Love said her father was born in Georgia, a “poor, sharecroppers’ boy.” 2 doctors, receptionist and visitor killed in Tulsa shooting 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z “I made it,” said the former sharecropper and soldier. Eugene Bishop, Maryland World War II vet, celebrates 100th birthday 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z He was born into indentured servitude in Mississippi, the son and brother of sharecroppers. Perspective | Spencer Haywood, who knows fan abuse, worries about our ‘demonic time’ 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z As well, the AAA left tenant farmers and sharecroppers, many of whom were Black, with no support. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z What people miss about the Great Migration is the terrorism that went on with Black Southern sharecroppers and very low-income families. Everyone has an idea for solving homelessness. What if we listened to the unhoused? 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z Her grandparents were sharecroppers who raised 11 children in a single-room house. Viola Davis, Inside Out 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z Eddy was very interested in the Southern Tenant Farmers Workers Union, a very interesting socialist-leaning union trying to organize sharecroppers in the South during the Great Depression. To renew democracy we need big dreams: Why utopian visions are necessary 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z She registered African Americans to vote, taught adult literacy courses and organized farming cooperatives to give Black sharecroppers independence from White landowners. Doris Derby, photographer of African American life, dies at 82 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z “A typical, rural, what we call a sharecropper’s home,” he said of the structure, which was owned by a white landlord who also owned the land and equipment his father used to grow cotton. Delving into the 1950 Census, searchers find rich links to the past. 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z The daughter of sharecroppers forced to flee Arkansas in the dead of night, she recalled how the legacy of slavery broke her family and stunted their ability to dream of anything beyond survival. Black reparations panel could decide who gets compensation 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z “She was the daughter and granddaughter of sharecroppers,” Graham recited. Opinion | In the Jackson hearings, Republicans prefer to whine about history 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z There was a lot of interest in this, for instance in developing health care because sharecroppers were often malnourished. To renew democracy we need big dreams: Why utopian visions are necessary 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z She also photographed sharecroppers working the land, seamstresses at a sewing cooperative, mothers tending to their young ones and children going about their childhood. Doris Derby, photographer of African American life, dies at 82 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Esther Rolle, a sharecropper’s daughter who grew up to become a respected actress and role model for other blacks, has died. Janet Jackson, BernNadette Stanis pay tribute to 'Good Times' co-star Johnny Brown 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z She told about her early days when her family members were sharecroppers picking cotton in Mississippi. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Proposing a better layout for these sports pages 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z African Americans working as sharecroppers found it hard to escape poverty. myWorld: The Growth of Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z These conditions prompted the California Legislature to label the ports’ short-haul drivers “the last American sharecroppers, held in debt servitude and working dangerously long hours for little pay.” Column: You may be mad at truck drivers, but they're the victims of an abusive system 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z “And he told me that. He said, ‘I had no interest in being a sharecropper. Inglewood Has Experienced Dramatic Change. The Super Bowl Is Proof of That. 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z His staunch opposition to Judge Brown, the daughter of an Alabama sharecropper, prompted allegations of hypocrisy after he reiterated last week his vow to nominate a Black woman to the U.S. Biden accused of hypocrisy for filibuster against Black female jurist’s nomination 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Her parents were sharecroppers, and she picked cotton as a child. Lusia Harris, dominant 1970s women’s basketball star who was drafted by the NBA, dies at 66 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z These are people whose ancestors were sharecroppers, and whose families headed west to escape Jim Crow. Column: They never thought they'd see a Black president, or another assault on voting rights 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z What some Black activists call "sharecropper" statutes are standard in current social equity policy. The Florida cannabis behemoth leaving Black growers behind 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z But Robinson’s life began in this remote place, outside the town of Cairo in Grady County, Ga., where he was born to a family of sharecroppers. A Marker Honoring Jackie Robinson Was Defaced. M.L.B. Helped Replace It. 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Dr. Cahn advocated over the years on behalf of Black sharecroppers in the South and Native Americans fighting the termination of Indian tribes. Edgar Cahn, champion of legal services for the poor, dies at 86 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z Robertson grew up in poverty in Indianapolis, the son of sharecroppers and the grandson of enslaved people, with a family that couldn’t afford a basketball. You remember Oscar Robertson for triple-doubles. He recalls his fight for players’ rights. 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z Mr. Lewis, a sharecropper’s son, was bloodied in the Jim Crow South as he championed racial equity and the right to vote. ‘We have no option’: Biden calls for changing Senate rules to pass voting rights laws. 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Frank McDougald watched the film with his mom, Hilda, 101, who left her family’s home in Mansura, La., where her father was a sharecropper, and came to D.C. to process payroll for soldiers. Film honors African American women who were ‘Rosie the Riveters’ during World War II 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Both had worked as sharecroppers, and one of Ms. Meek’s grandmothers was born into slavery. Carrie P. Meek, pathbreaking Florida congresswoman, dies at 95 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z Her parents began their life together as sharecroppers. Carrie P. Meek, U.S. Lawmaker Who Made Racial History, Dies at 95 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z “Only in America can the granddaughter of a slave and the daughter of a former sharecropper believe that she can achieve and conquer all that presents itself in opposition to her dreams,” the late U.S. Former US Rep. Carrie Meek remembered as trailblazer 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z Carrie Meek, the grandchild of an enslaved person and a sharecropper’s daughter who became one of the first Black Floridians elected to Congress since Reconstruction, died Sunday. Fauci goes toe-to-toe with Cruz on covid-19 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z Her father worked in nearby fields as a sharecropper and her mother took in laundry from white families. Carrie Meek, pioneering Black former congresswoman, dies 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z Hamer was born in 1917 and was one of 20 children in a family of Mississippi sharecroppers who worked corn and cotton. Did the FBI order Malcolm X's murder? New revelations raise an old question 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z In 1962, Hamer was a Mississippi sharecropper with little formal schooling when she decided to attend a voting rights organizing meeting at a local church. Review | What Fannie Lou Hamer can teach today’s activists 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z He grew up the grandson of a sharecropper in South Carolina before migrating to D.C., and then Harlem at 14. After covid-19 took his father, son fights to keep iconic dive bar in Times Square alive 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z She and my grandfather owned a small farm — they were not sharecroppers or tenant farmers. "Critical race theory" is a fairytale — but America's monsters are real 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z “California’s port drayage drivers are the last American sharecroppers, held in debt servitude and working dangerously long hours for little pay,” the Legislature said in its preamble to the new statute. Port truckers win $30 million in wage theft settlements 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z In addition to his day job, Pat Jones was a sharecropper, growing and selling poinsettias. For Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, Southern California has always been a second home 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z The daughter of a poor sharecropper who was also a Baptist minister, she started picking cotton at age 6. Review | What Fannie Lou Hamer can teach today’s activists 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Miller, who was the son of Texas sharecroppers and the grandson of slaves, said being in the Navy, "beats sitting around Waco working as a busboy, going nowhere." First cut of steel made for first aircraft carrier named for African American war hero 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z Those stories may stem from histories of poverty or perhaps being sharecroppers or small farmers who lost their land or their homes to crooked banks. "Critical race theory" is a fairytale — but America's monsters are real 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z The trailblazing singer, the son of a Mississippi sharecropper, was the first Black superstar in country music, writing hits such as “Kiss An Angel Good Mornin’.” What's on TV Wednesday: 'CMT Giants: Charley Pride'; 'American Horror Story: Double Feature' 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z He urged them to avoid the tendency to neglect the subject and instead help students escape their “serf-like communities” within high-tech society, just as sharecroppers earlier sought release from the serfdom of the plantation. Bob Moses, 1960s civil rights leader who saw math as road to equality, dies at 86 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z Typically dressed in denim bib overalls and seemingly more comfortable around sharecroppers than senators, he insisted that he was an organizer, not a leader. Bob Moses, Crusader for Civil Rights and Math Education, Dies at 86 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z His father was a half-Cajun sharecropper; his mother was a French-speaking Cajun midwife. Edwin Edwards, roguish Louisiana governor, dies at 93 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z You had Black sharecroppers whose wages had been stolen from them. Scholar Carol Anderson on the "anti-Blackness" coded into the Second Amendment 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z It was widely — and falsely — reported in the white press that the sharecroppers had intended to kill every white person they could and take control of the county. Opinion | How the White Press Wrote Off Black America 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z Lewis, a Black son of sharecroppers who represented Atlanta in Congress, died last summer at age 80, still encouraging younger Americans to defend democracy. Seattle councilmember suggests naming new light rail station bridge for Rep. John Lewis 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z "Your task is to determine the depth of the harm, and the ways in which we are to repair that harm," said Weber, whose parents were sharecroppers forced to leave the South. California task force holds first meeting to study reparations for slave descendants 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z Before moving the family to Tulsa, her parents were sharecroppers. One of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre — 107 years old — wants justice 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Tenant farmers and sharecroppers in the South unionized. Don't be fooled by Joe Biden: None of his big proposals will become reality — and he knows it 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z The African American press pointed out soon after the bloodletting that the sharecroppers had been slaughtered for contesting a form of slavery under which white overlords swindled them out of their earnings. Opinion | How the White Press Wrote Off Black America 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z And the Rev. Albert Wagner, the son of Arkansas sharecroppers, who was recently featured in a retrospective at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. Opinion | The Picassos of the American South 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z After the Civil War, that labor became exploitative in more subtle ways — the economy of sharecroppers and Jim Crow, of factory workers at the mercy of their bosses, of seasonal migrants and, indeed, of immigrants. Immigrant workers are essential to America's future — and we need a new paradigm for justice 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z When Black sharecroppers in the town joined together to negotiate for fairer terms and wages, they were attacked by white mobs. Despite racial reckoning, state efforts stall on reparations 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z She was the daughter of a sharecropper, leaving school in seventh grade and working as a waitress. Tempest Storm, legendary burlesque star, dies at Vegas home 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z Another grave holds the remains of a sharecropper named Thomas M. Turner, who was killed in a dispute with a White landowner in 1906, Hagey said. The search for the missing dead in a historic African American cemetery 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z “Her father was a sharecropper, and also drove a school bus,” Prescott said, “convenient for transporting such a large family.” Still a lively stepper: Leana “Jitterbug” Manuel turns 100 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z Barely 30, she was already a fierce civil rights activist, raised by sharecroppers who had instilled in her an unwavering sense of right and wrong. Environmental-justice activists keep fighting to stop pollution in U.S. communities of color 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z Frazier was the son, and 12th child, of a one-armed South Carolina sharecropper. Looking back at Ali vs. Frazier: 50 years since 'The Fight of the Century' 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z In Flexner’s eyes, Black physicians were better off as hygienists for sharecroppers living on old plantations. Doctors really want to vaccinate Black people against COVID-19. Unequal access to shots fuels mistrust 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z Papa Willie, as he was known, was a hardworking family man and sharecropper who lived right outside of Tuskegee in a community called Cotton Valley. Great-granddaughter of Tuskegee Study victim gets vaccine 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z And one reason Mississippi research can be challenging is that Black sharecroppers who fled abusive landowners often changed their names to avoid being found elsewhere. With slavery’s impact, how do Black residents find ancestors 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z Dr. Kristy Cromblin knew that as the descendant of Alabama sharecroppers and the first person in her family to go to college, making it to medical school might seem like an improbable dream. ‘I am worth it’: Why thousands of doctors in America can’t get a job 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z Her father had been a sharecropper before the family moved to Charlotte from Concord when she was in eighth grade. Rapid development risks erasing Black homeownership legacy 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z The son of Alabama sharecroppers, Ligon entered prison when Dwight Eisenhower was president. After 68 years, the nation’s longest-serving juvenile lifer embraces freedom 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z Her grandparents were slaves, her father was a sharecropper and her mother did laundry for a living. Effort to get statue of Black journalist in US, KY Capitols 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z Mr Frazier, the grandson of a sharecropper, is known as a leader in the US business community on racial issues. Rare black Fortune 500 chief Ken Frazier to retire 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z The grandson of a sharecropper, and son of a janitor, Frazier was set to retire in 2019, but the company scrapped a policy requiring CEOs to retire at the age of 65. U.S. drugmaker Merck's Kenneth Frazier to step down as CEO 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z The Jim Crow era brought a violent backlash from white landowners, and Black farmers and sharecroppers became the target of intimidation, bombings and other attacks. Two Biden Priorities, Climate and Inequality, Meet on Black-Owned Farms 2021-01-31T05:00:00Z Tyson received an Oscar nomination for her work in “Sounder,” the 1972 story about a Louisiana sharecropper’s family coping with his imprisonment on a chain gang for a minor theft. Cicely Tyson, actress who captured the the power and grace of Black women in America, dies 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Hamer recounted being stopped by police after trying to register to vote, being fired as a sharecropper, about 16 bullets shot into the home of friends where she slept. The Black women who paved the way 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z His mother as a teenager had worked as a sharecropper picking cotton and tobacco. `Only in America’: Warnock’s rise from poverty to US senator 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z He did not mention the killing in his speech, but talked about his own family’s history as sharecroppers and victims of racial injustice. The History Raphael Warnock Is Chasing 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z The family fled Arkansas for California when she was 3, after her father, a sharecropper, refused to back down in a dispute with a white farmer and a lynch mob threatened his life, she said. Ancestor of 1st Black California elections chief never voted 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z As Shawn reported last week, Weber’s father, a sharecropper in Arkansas who fled racist violence to California, didn’t get a chance to vote until well into his 30s. Meet Alex Padilla, California’s next senator 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z She’s the daughter of an Arkansas sharecropper who fled to Los Angeles when his life was threatened by a white farmer over a dispute. Alex Padilla's Senate appointment marks a new chapter in California politics. It's about time 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z These stories are as ingrained in Black American culture as deeply as the historical narratives of slaves and sharecroppers. Blame America, not Black Americans, for fear of COVID-19 vaccine 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z His parents were sharecroppers who cultivated peanuts, corn and cotton. Charley Pride obituary 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z Charley Pride was 14 at the time, one of 11 children of a sharecropper in Sledge, Miss., a cotton town in the Delta. Charley Pride, the 'Jackie Robinson of country music,' dies at 86 of COVID-19 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z A son of a Mississippi sharecropper, a Negro League pitcher who could hit, he broke through as a modern country music hero. Charley Pride: 10 essential songs 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z The pride of Sledge, Mississippi, was the son of a sharecropper who initially turned to sports as a way to a better life. Charley Pride overcame racial barriers as country music star 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z Charley Frank Pride was born in Sledge, Miss., on March 18, 1934, and was the fourth of 11 children in a family of sharecroppers. Charley Pride, first major Black star in country music, dies at 86 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z Pride was raised in Sledge, Mississippi, the son of a sharecropper. Charley Pride, country’s first Black superstar, dies at 86 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z The granddaughter of a sharecropper who never learned to read, Hall read for a living. Tamron Hall is betting on herself — and winning 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z Holmes’ parents, sharecroppers Carey and Mary Holmes, opened the business in the late 1940s. Several Mississippi musicians garner Grammy nominations 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Holland was born Jan. 31, 1933, the only child of sharecroppers, according to The Journal. Longtime judge, pioneer for Mississippi women leaders, dies 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Her parents, who were sharecroppers, were forced from their land when Ruby integrated her elementary school. Lucille Bridges, who stood by daughter Ruby through school desegregation, dies at 86 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z The news outlet said Bridges was born to sharecroppers in Mississippi and did not finish an elementary school education. Lucille Bridges, mother of activist Ruby Bridges, dies at 86 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z A strong work ethic was never an issue for Flores, who grew up in the tiny Central California town of Sanger, and was the son of a sharecropper who arrived from Mexico at age 12. Overlooked former Raiders coach Tom Flores discusses his slow march toward the Hall of Fame 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z A descendant of enslaved people and sharecroppers, he was raised by a single mother in a predominantly Black Houston neighborhood where White flight, underinvestment and mass incarceration fostered a crucible of inequality. Injustice in life and oppression in death: How systemic racism shaped George Floyd’s life and hobbled his ambition 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Turnage was born in Richmond, the son of a sharecropper and a domestic worker. Perspective | His job is to manage health and human services. He’s working on his own. 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Love understood poverty’s grind, having grown up in a small town in South Carolina, the son of sharecroppers. Goodbye, ‘Mr. Love’: A beloved barber’s final bow 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z Eastport was primarily settled by sons and daughters of enslaved people and sharecroppers. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: This comic showed arrogant disdain for certain professions 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z James Harris, a Mississippi-born sharecropper who gained international fame as “Kamala the Ugandan Giant,” a massive professional wrestler who terrorized opponents with his trademark “splash,” has died. James ‘Kamala’ Harris, pro wrestling star, dies at 70 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z Floyd’s grandparents were North Carolina sharecroppers, working farms owned by White landowners in exchange for a portion of the crop. Injustice in life and oppression in death: How systemic racism shaped George Floyd’s life and hobbled his ambition 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z There was Owens, the son of an Alabama sharecropper and Long, the blonde-haired, blue-eyed German, celebrating under the ever-looming presence of Hitler. Fast friends: Unlikely ally aids Owens at ’36 Berlin Games 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z When the river first swelled, Taijul Islam, the sharecropper from the Kurigram district in the country’s north, rushed to save his livestock — cattle, goats, chickens, ducks. A Quarter of Bangladesh Is Flooded. Millions Have Lost Everything. 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Born the son of sharecroppers in 1940, Lewis was one of the original Freedom Riders who participated in sit-ins to desegregate lunch counters in Nashville. Eulogized by presidents and civil rights leaders, John Lewis laid to rest in Atlanta 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Lewis was the son of Alabama sharecroppers and engaged in decades of activism before being elected to Congress in 1987 and living to see Obama's inauguration in 2009. John Lewis funeral at MLK's church brings together former presidents to honor civil rights icon 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Larcenia and her 12 surviving siblings all graduated from high school, a source of pride for their sharecropper parents who never attended. Injustice in life and oppression in death: How systemic racism shaped George Floyd’s life and hobbled his ambition 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z When he learned, Arrington immediately thought back to his family history, especially the racism and deprivation his grandfather faced as a sharecropper: “Just one step removed from slavery.” History meets mythology: Debate stirs over push to rename T.C. Williams High School, of ‘Remember the Titans’ fame 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z A son of sharecroppers, Mr. Lewis was a leader in the historic civil rights movement, alongside Martin Luther King Jr. Rep. John Lewis’ casket arrives at U.S. Capitol to lie in state in the Rotunda 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z The son of sharecroppers, Lewis was among the original Freedom Riders, a group of young activists who boarded commercial passenger buses and traveled through the segregated Jim Crow South. Body of John Lewis arrives in DC to lie in state at Capitol 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z The ceremony came on the second of six days of tributes to the son of sharecroppers, fighter for civil rights and lawmaker widely hailed as the conscience of Congress. John Lewis makes final journey across Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z It was a familiar experience for Black sharecroppers, who worked under a predatory system and often had no recourse other than to move to another farm and start again. Injustice in life and oppression in death: How systemic racism shaped George Floyd’s life and hobbled his ambition 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z The memorial Saturday honored the 17-term congressman and son of a sharecropper. At memorial service, John Lewis’s family urges Americans to keep his legacy alive 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z The son of sharecroppers, he worked alongside his siblings on his family's land, tending the fields and animals. John Lewis' celebration of life begins in Alabama: Six day journey to start in Troy and Selma 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z The film shows us Lewis’ roots as the son of Alabama sharecroppers, through warm recollections from his siblings. New documentary pays loving tribute to John Lewis and his life of ‘Good Trouble’ 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z One of seven children, Finch was a descendant of sharecroppers. A black man accused of rape, a white officer in the Klan, and a 1936 lynching that went unpunished 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z Lewis was the son of Alabama sharecroppers and engaged in decades of activism before being elected to Congress in 1987 and living to see the first black president when Barack Obama was inaugurated in 2009. House will observe moment of silence for late Rep. John Lewis, Pelosi says 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z He was a gentle and elegant son of a sharecropper who saw the best in America when Americans who claimed the country for themselves had turned her into something twisted and ugly. Opinion | A civil rights giant passes the baton 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z Born to impoverished Alabama sharecroppers, Mr. Lewis was a high school student in 1955 when he heard broadcasts by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. that drew him to activism. John Lewis, front-line civil rights leader and eminence of Capitol Hill, dies at 80 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z The son of Alabama sharecroppers, Lewis was already a national figure when he first entered Congress in 1987, representing Georgia from an Atlanta-area district. Chris Wallace previews Trump interview, recalls late Rep. John Lewis 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z Lewis was the son of sharecroppers in Alabama but represented a Georgia district for 33 years in the US House of Representatives. John Lewis: Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey lead tributes to civil rights hero 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z Since his sharecropper family lived in a state run by and for white people, Lewis had virtually no Black political leaders to emulate as a role model. Religious faith was a lifelong constant for Rep. John Lewis 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z Born in Troy, Alabama, Lewis grew up on a farm as the son of sharecroppers and attended segregated public schools. John Lewis, civil rights icon, congressman for 33 years, dead at 80 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z Lewis, an Alabama sharecropper’s son elected in 1986 as a Democrat to the U.S. John Lewis, U.S. congressman and sharecropper's son, was civil rights hero 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z Lewis was born on 21 February, 1940, during Jim Crow to a family of sharecroppers in the small Southern town of Troy, Alabama. Obituary: Representative John Lewis 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z A son of Alabama sharecroppers, the young Lewis first preached moral righteousness to his family’s chickens. Remembering John Lewis, rights icon and `American hero’ 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z Feb. 21, 1940: Born the son of Black sharecroppers near Troy, Alabama. A timeline of events in the life of Rep. John Lewis 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z Born in the Jim Crow South in 1932, Jackson married young and worked in the fields with her husband as a sharecropper. Former sharecropper, church pillar, matriarch: Luevella Jackson died of covid-19 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z After enslavement and well into the 20th century, they were primarily restricted to the role of sharecroppers and servants — domestics, lawn boys, chauffeurs and janitors. America’s Enduring Caste System 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z “Something dramatic is going on,” said Weber, who is the daughter of sharecroppers and a scholar of African American studies. Calls for reparations are growing louder. How is the US responding? 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z I’m only called in to write about a sharecropper or a black baseball player. Black filmmakers and executives get honest about their experiences in Hollywood 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z The site is just two miles up the trail from the Hickory Hill sharecropper cemetery near Dempsey Mayo Road. Forgotten cemetery may be under Miccosukee Greenway trail 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z When James was about 7 his mother left him with his grandfather, a sharecropper, and moved to Washington. Jimmy Glenn, Ex-Boxer Whose Times Square Bar Endures, Dies at 89 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z With the storm clouds of World War Two looming, the son of an Alabama sharecropper and grandson of former slaves took two minutes and four seconds to shatter the symbol of supposed Aryan racial superiority. On this day: Born May 13, 1914: Joe Louis, American boxer 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z This “peculiar indifference” was infamously sanctioned by the federal government between 1932 and 1972, when the United States Public Health Service conducted a study on hundreds of black day laborers and sharecroppers in Alabama. ‘A Terrible Price’: The Deadly Racial Disparities of Covid-19 in America 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z I share very little with that sharecropper experience, but I fear I’ll never be able to write about my own experiences because it never registers on any list of accepted Black narratives. Black filmmakers and executives get honest about their experiences in Hollywood 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Then, about this time last year, she found an 1869 sharecropper contract between Cruel and Whitfield in a file of the Florida Plantation Records. Forgotten cemetery may be under Miccosukee Greenway trail 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z When she was a child, she picked cotton beside her sharecropper father starting at 9 years old. Patients in pain, dentists in distress: In a pandemic, the problem with teeth 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z The mob dragged the young black sharecroppers to the river’s edge and shot them to death. Court: Grand jury records from lynching can’t be released 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z His father, a sharecropper, purchased the instrument out of a Sears-Roebuck catalog for $5 when Campbell, the seventh son of 12 children, was just 4 years old. Glen Campbell’s widow says museum brought ‘some purpose out of the horrible time we’d just gone through’ 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z He said his great-grandfather, a sharecropper outside Tulsa, would travel to Greenwood on the weekends to buy groceries and visit a doctor. A 1921 massacre destroyed 'Black Wall Street' in Tulsa. The city is still looking for the dead 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z The possible find comes at a time when there’s interest in locating and memorializing abandoned cemeteries where former slaves and sharecroppers now lay. Forgotten cemetery may be under Miccosukee Greenway trail 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z Their mother’s family had been sharecroppers on a Mississippi cotton plantation. What one family’s story reveals about reparations 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z The same exclusions applied to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which meant that many black sharecroppers and farmers were without protection from continued exploitation by white-male plantation owners in the Jim Crow south. Workers need a bold vision to bring about a more equitable society 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Port Tampa employment brought Campbell’s sharecropper great-grandfather Earnest Williams there from Georgia in either the late 1890s or early 1900s. Judge’s ancestor buried in cemetery possibly at MacDill Base 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z How does someone of such humble beginnings, a sharecropper’s son born in “a little bitty shotgun shack,” as Lewis used to say, rise to such levels of respect for so many? Of my former colleagues in Congress, John Lewis is the one I most admire 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z The affairs of slaves and sharecroppers were considered unimportant by historians. Forgotten cemetery may be under Miccosukee Greenway trail 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z A sharecropper’s son who rose to become a civil-rights champion and the chairman of one of the U.S. Passages: Remembering those we lost in 2019 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z The son of a sharecropper, Mr. Currie was a teacher who rose to become a popular and leading black lawmaker. Former Maryland lawmaker Ulysses Currie dies at age 82 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z Lewis, an Alabama sharecropper’s son first elected in 1986 as a Democrat to the U.S. U.S. lawmaker and civil rights hero John Lewis has pancreatic cancer 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z The son of a North Carolina sharecropper, Mr. Currie, who was African American, rose to become one of Maryland’s most powerful Democrats, serving as chair of the Senate’s Budget and Taxation Committee. Ulysses Currie, former Maryland state lawmaker, dies at 82 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z And she found after Emancipation, Abram signed a sharecropper’s contract for a plot of land that eventually became part of the Welaunee hunting plantation. Forgotten cemetery may be under Miccosukee Greenway trail 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z The son of a sharecropper, Currie was a teacher who rose to become a popular and leading black lawmaker. Former Maryland lawmaker Ulysses Currie dies 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z He was born the son of a sharecropper, became a lawyer, then an influential congressman and champion of civil rights. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2019 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z A sharecropper’s wife keeps the family together after he goes to prison in 1930s Louisiana. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z He was born the son of a sharecropper and told by a school counselor he would never become a lawyer because he was too slow to learn and spoke poorly. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2019 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z The son of sharecroppers, Poulidor’s popularity was unmatched despite never winning the Tour. Much-admired Tour de France cyclist Poulidor dies at age 83 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Who he is, Gossett said, is the son of sharecroppers who moved to the Seattle area from Nigton, a rural East Texas community with a racist nickname. Trailing in his reelection bid, King County Councilmember Larry Gossett reflects on his storied career 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z It included references to Mr. Cummings’s beginnings as a son of sharecroppers and his defense, as a member of Congress, of civil rights, the poor and the powerless, and the rule of law. Elijah Cummings’s Funeral Draws Presidents and Thousands of Mourners 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z The sharecropper’s son rose to power in Washington, where he was first elected in 1996. Elijah Cummings remembered as ‘fierce champion of truth’ at funeral 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z A sharecropper’s son who rose to become a civil rights champion and the chairman of one of the U.S. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2019 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z A son of sharecroppers, Cummings served for 22 years in the U.S. U.S. Representative Cummings to be eulogized by Obama, Clintons in Baltimore 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z A son of sharecroppers, he became a lawyer and elected official. Obama, Clinton to honor US Rep. Cummings at funeral 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z He was the son of sharecroppers who left South Carolina to seek a better life in the big city of Baltimore. Opinion | Elijah Cummings knew the difference between winning the news cycle and serving the nation 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z The son of sharecroppers, Cummings died on Oct. Mourners remember the late U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings' kindness 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z A sharecropper’s son who rose through the seats of power to become one of the nation’s most influential voices. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2019 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z A sharecropper’s son, Cummings rose to become a civil rights champion, committee chairman and a leader of an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. Rep. Elijah Cummings to lie in state at US Capitol ceremony 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z A sharecropper’s son, Cummings led one of the U.S. Farewells to US Rep. Elijah Cummings to begin in Baltimore 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Elijah’s story was the story of the United States: A son of sharecroppers who became Baptist preachers, he dedicated his life to advancing justice, liberty, fairness and human dignity. Opinion | Nancy Pelosi: Elijah Cummings was our North Star 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z She was a former sharecropper, who implored him, “Do not let them take our votes away from us.” What Elijah Cummings Meant to Baltimore 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z His parents were sharecroppers in South Carolina, toiling on the same land where their ancestors had served as slaves. Analysis | Cummings’s legacy: champion for Baltimore, force of nature in Congress 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Born to a family of Southern sharecroppers and Baptist preachers, Mr. Cummings grew up in the racially fractured Baltimore of the 1950s and 1960s. Elijah Cummings, Baltimore congressman and civil rights leader, dies at 68 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z A sharecropper’s son, Cummings became the powerful chairman of a U.S. US Rep. Elijah Cummings has died. 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Born in a sharecropper’s shack in Texas, Simmons became a pioneering African American leader in higher education. ‘Slam dunk for Harvard’: Ruling backs the status quo on race in college admissions 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z He had been born and raised in South Carolina, and his family members were once sharecroppers on a plantation owned by the Pratt family called Good Hope, his brother, George Bolden, said. 48 Years Later, a Cold Case Mystery: Who Killed Officer Bolden? 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z The oldest of five children, Gibson was born in Silver, South Carolina, before her sharecropper parents relocated to Harlem. Tennis champ, trailblazer Althea Gibson honored at US Open 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z A sharecropper’s daughter of dubious repute helps her husband the governor clean up corruption. Movies on TV this week Aug. 25: 'Beauty and the Beast' (1991) and more 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z Cummings, 68, is a pillar of Baltimore, where he grew up after his parents, South Carolina sharecroppers, migrated to the city. ‘Not my Baltimore’: In Cummings’s district, a rich tapestry of problems and gems 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z No, Donald Trump’s wrath was directed at Baltimore and specifically at Rep. Elijah Cummings, the 68-year-old son of a former South Carolina sharecropper who has represented the district in the U.S. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z The 12-term lawmaker was raised in Baltimore by his parents, South Carolina sharecroppers who later moved to Maryland’s largest city to escape poverty. Elijah Cummings: Here’s the background on the congressman Trump attacked 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z When riots erupted on the streets of Baltimore in 2015, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., a son of sharecroppers, stood with a bullhorn on the streets on West Baltimore, urging residents to heed the curfew. Meet U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, the congressman Trump attacked 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z Poor sharecroppers the Joads leave dust bowl Oklahoma in hope of better luck in California. TV Listings: Here are the feature and TV Films airing the week of July 28 - Aug. 3, 2019 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z White men frustrated that the sharecroppers were organizing went on a rampage. In a small Arkansas town, echoes of a century-old massacre 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z White men frustrated that the sharecroppers were organizing went on a rampage. In a small Arkansas town, echoes of a century-old massacre 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z In Elaine, Arkansas, poor black sharecroppers who had dared to join a union were attacked, and at least 200 African Americans were killed. Hundreds of black deaths in Red Summer ignored century later 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z The 13-term congressman was raised in Baltimore by his parents, South Carolina sharecroppers who later moved to Maryland’s largest city to escape poverty. Meet U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, the congressman Trump attacked 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z His parents, his mother a nurse and his father a former sharecropper and the great-grandson of a slave, taught their two children to challenge authority and be steadfast. DeMaurice Smith is ready to battle the NFL again. Not everyone wants to join him. 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z His explanations of the authentic blues, as the son of Georgia sharecroppers, sound like lyrics you may have heard, or perhaps wish you had heard, at particular moments in your life. August Wilson was the blues, and Ma Rainey was his muse 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z Jones was born on December 23, 1927 in Mayflower, Arkansas, to Robert and Mattie Jones, a sharecropper and a domestic worker. Edith Jones, who integrated southern medical schools, dies 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z A white mob killed the four sharecroppers at Moore’s Ford Bridge in July 1946. Grand jury records on mass lynching once again before court 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z That’s where a sharecropper found him dead and alerted Wood’s brother, who called police. Georgia authorities seek new tips in 1973 cold case slaying 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z To help his family make ends meet, he worked as a child picking cotton among sharecroppers, according to his 2005 book “Remember this Titan,” co-authored by Steve Sullivan. Bill Yoast, assistant coach from T.C. Williams ‘Remember the Titans’ football team, dies at 94 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z Morgan, the son of Georgia sharecroppers, lives in Harmony and plays the blues with his band, the Nightcrawlers. August Wilson was the blues, and Ma Rainey was his muse 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z A daughter of sharecroppers, Mrs. Blackwell joined the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Unita Blackwell, Mississippi mayor who turned nation’s eyes on her forgotten hamlet, dies at 86 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Trainloads of coal and iron fired the plants and jobs lured people — including sharecroppers from the countryside and immigrants from Europe — to the working-class neighborhoods. The betrayal: How a lawyer, a lobbyist and a legislator waged war on an Alabama Superfund cleanup 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z By 1880 more than 90 percent of them were still in the South, and most still worked as farm laborers, tenant farmers or sharecroppers. What Southern dynasties’ post-Civil War resurgence tell us about how wealth is really handed down 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z A white family, the Feduccias, owned the land and lived in a big house; black sharecroppers, like the Guys, picked pecans and cotton. Buddy Guy Is Keeping the Blues Alive 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z The son of sharecroppers, he first gained national acclaim in 2015 when he walked West Baltimore’s streets during riots following police brutality accusations, helping calm a city that was literally on fire. Analysis | Cummings and Meadows have almost nothing in common — except a friendship 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z I remember seeing racist cartoons of tribal men, or what looked like sharecroppers on Looney Toons, back in the day. "There is no generic Africa": Chiwetel Ejiofor fell in love with Malawi for his directorial debut 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z Other forms of reparations could include transferring stocks, bonds or other assets to descendants of sharecroppers, slaves or both. Three 2020 Democrats say ‘yes’ to race-based reparations — but remain vague on details 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Jordan’s mother, Deloris, Lazenby said, part of a family of former North Carolina sharecroppers who believed strongly in economic empowerment, insisted he attend. How Michael Jordan became a brand 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Some of the wooden shacks have long since been abandoned by sharecropper families who went North. Buddy Guy Is Keeping the Blues Alive 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z A car carrying the four sharecroppers was stopped by a white mob at Moore’s Ford Bridge in July 1946. Court upholds order to unseal records in notorious lynching 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z “One year ago today, on my mother’s dying bed, at 92 years old — former sharecropper — her last words were, ‘Do not let them take our votes away from us,’ ” Cummings said during Wednesday’s hearing. Elijah Cummings rebukes Republican efforts to erode "essence of our democracy": "This is not Russia" 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z The elder King was born Michael King on Dec. 19, 1897, in Stockbridge, Ga., where his father worked on a plantation as a sharecropper, according to the King Institute. The story of how Michael King Jr. became Martin Luther King Jr. 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z The son of two former sharecroppers who moved from the south, Cummings was born and raised in Baltimore, a city he now represents in Congress. The top Democrats set to make Trump's life miserable in 2019 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z He is a son of two former sharecroppers turned Pentecostal ministers; his bald head and booming baritone project a ministerial — and authoritative — presence. These Democrats Will Soon Have the Power to Investigate the White House. How Far Will They Go? 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z After her father died when she was 2, Mrs. Eaton’s mother became a sharecropper. Rosanell Eaton, ‘unsung’ defender of voting rights for African Americans, dies at 97 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z His mother, Mildred, who was born to sharecroppers in South Louisiana, picked cotton before she won a small scholarship to Grambling. A College Degree, More than Fifteen Years in the Making 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z "There's thousands of sharecroppers coming at America at 1 to 2 miles per hour. They'll be here by April." Bruce Springsteen, Jon Stewart and more turn up for military veterans benefit ahead of midterms 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z Ruth Simmons, a former president of Brown and a sharecropper’s daughter who went on to study Proust in France, argued in the final days of the trial what such a verdict could entail. The Harvard Trial: A Double-Edged Sword for College Admissions 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z Before the advent of the mail-order catalog, rural black southerners typically only had the option of shopping at white-owned general stores — often run by the owner of the same farm where they worked as sharecroppers. Sears’ ‘radical’ past: How mail-order catalogs subverted the racial hierarchy of Jim Crow 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Perry James accepted the Purple Heart on behalf of his grandfather who returned to his life as a sharecropper in South Carolina’s Sumter County after he was wounded. Purple Heart awarded posthumously to World War I soldier at Fort Jackson 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z And in Greenville, Miss., the mayor of a nearby town founded by sharecroppers says she will not give up on coaxing young people to the polls, even as they complain their votes don’t matter. Driven by South’s Past, Black Women Seek Votes and a New Future 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z A car carrying the four sharecroppers was stopped by a white mob at Moore’s Ford Bridge, overlooking the Apalachee River, in July 1946. Historian seeks grand jury transcripts in notorious lynching 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Traylor remained there until about 1908 as a laborer—he was, at one point, a member of a surveying crew—and perhaps as a sharecropper. The Utterly Original Bill Traylor 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z His parents were sharecroppers, and Otis often had to forgo school when the farm’s overseer summoned him and his siblings to work the fields. Otis Rush, blues singer and guitarist with intensely emotional style, dies at 83 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z The grandson of a sharecropper, and son of a janitor, Frazier’s appointment to CEO in 2011 made him the only black person leading one of the major U.S. or European drugmakers. Merck's Frazier to remain CEO of the U.S. drugmaker beyond 2019 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Smith, 74, a son of Texas sharecroppers, earned a master’s degree in sociology and, like Carlos, settled into a career of coaching, teaching, counseling. Kaepernick’s Knee and Olympic Fists Are Linked by History 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Homer once flourished as a farming community, a community that relied economically on cotton growers and sharecroppers. Town fights for future rooted in art, history and culture 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z Brown was the son of sharecroppers who grew up in rural west Alabama. Early black Alabama school superintendent dies 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z They had been tenant farmers and sharecroppers, according to a Pinellas County research paper that drew on oral histories to chronicle the founding of Dansville. Black neighborhood hopes progress is kind to its past 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z It’s a period piece about a sharecropper and his community. What’s in your bag, Krewella? 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z A suspicious number of works ascribed to the 19th-century artist William Aiken Walker, who often painted black sharecroppers in the American south, were emerging in the market. How to spot a perfect fake: the world’s top art forgery detective 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z When I was young, he was a sharecropper, which meant that half or more of the crop we picked went to the landowner. Charley Pride on His Mother’s Words That Led to Country Stardom 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Pearce has highlighted his own childhood brushes with poverty as the son of failed Texas sharecroppers. New Mexico voters embrace progressive female candidates 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z Pride, 84, was born into a family of sharecroppers in Sledge. 5 honored by Mississippi Arts and Entertainment museum 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z The 65-year-old, who was born in Chicago and raised by his grandmother after his mother’s death, is the descendent of slaves and sharecroppers in North Carolina. 'I pray for Donald Trump, I do': Bishop Michael Curry addresses US divisions 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z In his 2015 autobiography, Songs My Grandma Sang, Curry reveals that his family are descended from slaves and sharecroppers in North Carolina and Alabama. Black American bishop will give the address at royal wedding 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z “It’s possible,” Burke said, “very possible, that Elwood Higginbotham was actually involved in union organizing within a Communist labor group, trying to build power among the local sharecroppers, particularly the black sharecroppers in the area.” A Lynching’s Long Shadow 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z As family lore goes, when he was a sharecropper in Georgia, black farmers needed a pass to leave their plot of land. Opinion | A Problem Starbucks Can’t Train Away 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z She dropped out of school at age 15, picked cotton as a sharecropper and then worked as a waitress and maid for white families. Seattle Times says goodbye to ‘the conscience of the newsroom’ with columnist Jerry Large’s retirement 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z Hardaway grew up in the distressed Binghamton neighborhood, raised by his grandmother, Louise, an Arkansas sharecropper who bought and paid off her home working as a nanny, maid and city schools cook. Tennessee editorial roundup 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z My grandfather on my paternal side, Richard Frazier, was born in the late 1850s, and therefore was born into slavery, but was a sharecropper in South Carolina for his entire life. Merck C.E.O. Ken Frazier on Death Row Cases and the Corporate Soul 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z The sharecropper and Roberts had quarreled earlier; Higginbotham had objected to Roberts’s running cattle over his rented field. A Lynching’s Long Shadow 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z At the turn of the 20th century, millions lived in rental tenements in big cities or worked as sharecroppers on land they didn’t own in the South. Digging into the foundation of the housing cost crisis 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z For African Americans, owning land — after toiling tirelessly over it as slaves and then as sharecroppers — was, and still is, a symbol of their liberation, he writes. Inspirational tales in ‘Black Fortunes’ shatter myths about blacks and money 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z As the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. knew: In 1965, he met Alabama sharecroppers who, having been paid all their lives in plantation scrip, had never seen U.S. currency. Opinion | Frederick Douglass, a champion of American individualism 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z “The slaves went off the plantations as slaves and went back on as sharecroppers,” he said. Analysis | The Health 202: Antiabortion activists divided over what it means to be "pro-life" even as they score legislative wins 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z The men took the sharecropper out of the car, hanged him from a tree and shot him. A Lynching’s Long Shadow 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Jones never forgot his 1930s childhood in poverty, one of 12 children in an Arkansas sharecropper family, picking cotton. Floyd Jones, the Seattle multimillionaire who gave much of his money away, dies at 90 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Many of the African-Americans settled in southern York County, working as tenant farmers or sharecroppers for the owners of the large farms in the area. African-American church has a history dating to 1850 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z As one of the thousands of sharecroppers who worked white men’s land in Lowndes County over the years, 59-year-old Hardy recalls picking cotton after school growing up. How an ex-sharecropper in helped drive Doug Jones to victory 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Other times, he discarded his usual suit and bow tie for overalls to look the part of a sharecropper. Simeon Booker, intrepid chronicler of civil rights struggle for Jet and Ebony, dies at 99 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z From the outside, Alabama might look like a homogenous swath of live oaks, Spanish moss, white columns and sharecropper shacks. Perspective | Five myths about Alabama 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z His dying friend, Ensign Jesse L. Brown, 24, was the son of Mississippi sharecroppers and the first African American naval aviator. Thomas J. Hudner Jr., military and civil rights hero of Korean War, dies at 93 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z The Jacksons are black sharecroppers who claim an ancestral connection to the soil they till, while the McAllans are white, middle class and bought their their way in. Dee Rees gave 'Mudbound' a personal touch with the help of her grandmother's journal 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z But Owens, the son of a sharecropper and the grandson of a slave, was hardly championed upon his return home. Trump v the NFL: the latest battle in a long war over sports, race and politics 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z It didn't take long before Mexican-Americans were eating hog maws, neck bones, and sweet potato pie and the former sharecroppers were eating frijoles refritos or jerk chicken. Opinion | The Resistance Is Hungry 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z “That means an obligation to the coal-miners and sharecroppers, the migratory workers, the tenement house dwellers and farmers who cannot make a living.” What Would Eleanor Roosevelt Tell Us? 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Rather, she is claiming that elites sought to use it by stoking racial hatred to blind white sharecroppers to their own plight. Opinion | Want to Know What Divides This Country? Come to Alabama 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z The son of sharecroppers turned factory workers, Cummings said he developed a personal rapport and connection with Trump when they met in the Oval Office in March. Rep. Elijah Cummings, back from surgery, tells staff: Keep fighting for democracy 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z His heel rests heavy on the neck of Elma’s sharecropper father, Juke, who produces the bootleg gin that lubricates George’s bottom line. A riveting novel of injustice, race in the Jim Crow South 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Wright, a local sharecropper’s son who was two years younger, said he knew immediately upon hearing Till’s whistle that his cousin was in danger. Simeon Wright, witness to the abduction of his cousin Emmett Till, dies at 74 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z His father was a sharecropper and circuit preacher who became a nightclub custodian in the mid-1950s after the family moved to the Chicago suburbs. Simeon Wright, Witness to Abduction of Emmett Till, Dies at 74 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Liggett, a sharecropper’s son who spent three decades erecting more than 300 provocative, vivid metal sculptures and whirligigs. M.T. Liggett, who lined a highway with politically provocative art, dies at 86 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z Exact figures are unclear, but historians estimate that more than 200 sharecroppers were killed. Arkansas town hopes to create memorial for 1919 massacre 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z His father was a sharecropper, a tenant who paid his rent with a proportion of the crops that he grew. Obituary: Glen Campbell - BBC News 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z A sharecropper’s son, and one of 12 children, he was born outside of Delight, Arkansas, and grew up revering country music stars such as Hank Williams. Glen Campbell, superstar entertainer of 1960s and ‘70s, dies 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Industrialization began to supplant the plantation turned sharecropper economy and a modern transportation infrastructure was built on rails. The importance of the fight for the South: Why it can and must be won 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z More focus is needed, she said, on the racism that oppressed ex-slaves in the decades after the Civil War, often as sharecroppers on the land where they once were enslaved. Old South grandeur, leavened with a cold look at slavery 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z He was 19 when he left a sharecroppers farm in North Carolina to take a job at Hot Shoppes, a root beer stand run by the Marriott family. Meet Marriott’s longest-standing employee: A 79-year-old omelet-maker 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Back in New York, the Workers Defense League asked Murray to help raise money on behalf of an imprisoned Virginia sharecropper named Odell Waller. The Civil-Rights Luminary You’ve Never Heard Of 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Clay Surovek agreed with this assessment, noting that Benton was painting sharecroppers while other artists of the time were painting children frolicking in fields. A Palm Beach painting is selling for $4.8M: Is it a bargain? 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z Mechanization of agriculture began displacing hundreds of thousands of sharecroppers and small farmers. The importance of the fight for the South: Why it can and must be won 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z “The only reason people come to town now is for funerals, and they leave as soon as they’re over ‘cause there’s nothing to do and nowhere to stay,” said Walker, 64, the son of sharecroppers. In poor Black Belt region, both fears and prayers over Trump 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z “The only reason people come to town now is for funerals, and they leave as soon as they’re over ’cause there’s nothing to do and nowhere to stay,” said Walker, 64, the son of sharecroppers. In poor Black Belt region, both fears and prayers over Trump 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z Mr. Martin was born into a family of North Carolina sharecroppers in 1907. Why Succeeding Against the Odds Can Make You Sick 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Born to rural southern sharecroppers rather than into a family of immense wealth, Lewis has spent virtually his entire life in the public sphere as an advocate for racial justice and progressive values. Atlanta protest takes on importance after Trump insults civil rights leader 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z Albert Turner was the son of a sharecropper who rose to become King’s field secretary in Alabama. Trump’s pick for attorney general is shadowed by race and history 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z Davis, the fifth of their six children, was delivered by her grandmother in a one-room sharecropper’s shack on a former plantation near St. Matthews, South Carolina. Viola Davis’s Call to Adventure 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z “He’s said we ought to be drilling for gas, we ought to be grazing cattle,” Otter said, noting that he would be willing to be a “sharecropper for the public lands of Idaho.” Governors of Western states look to the future under a Trump administration 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z On Monday, Lynch likened the struggle of Muslims and other minority groups to the civil rights movement, and to the experiences of her father and grandfather, a North Carolina sharecropper. Outgoing attorney general urges American Muslims to have faith 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z She’s uncovered old photographs of sharecroppers in a field, men swimming at the city pool nearly 100 years ago and girls working in a cotton gin. ‘Paint the town’: Muralist transforms walls in West Point 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z Many left behind their lives as tenant farmers, sharecroppers and farm hands for better opportunities in the North. Farm partners with Indianapolis center to feed neighborhood 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z Henderson was born in the small southern Indiana town of Dale, the 10th child of a tobacco sharecropper. Florence Henderson was longtime pre-race Indy 500 performer 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Back then, it was a rural outpost, wide-open land tended to by black sharecroppers and white farmers, some of whom were former plantation owners. Northeast Dallas lot may offer clues to old black settlement 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Son of a sharecropper, Woods was living with his aunt and two younger siblings in Daytona Beach when he voluntarily enlisted soon after Pearl Harbor. 90-year-old WW II veteran gets a salute from Honor Flight 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z The result is both a horrific tale of violence and a rumination on the societal problems for poor sharecroppers of the era. 9 New Books to Read for Halloween 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Jones, who grew up as the son of a sharecropper in Dawson, Georgia, says education changed his life. U of Illinois chancellor brings wide-ranging experience 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z Her parents were the children of sharecroppers who went to college and marched in the civil rights movement. As arrests mount in Baton Rouge, protesters question police tactics 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z Then he talked about his great-grandmother, Florence Brown, who had been a sharecropper in Mississippi. Thousands of fish come to Kansas City food desert 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z They fitted out Ground Zero to look like a juke joint, of the kind sharecroppers once patronised, which required old beer signs, Christmas lights and pool tables. Standin’ at the crossroads 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z The youngest of 13 children of an Oklahoma sharecropper, Hamm, 70, made much of his fortune in North Dakota’s Bakken shale oil region. How a North Dakota oil billionaire is helping shape Trump’s views on energy 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z “We were sharecroppers. So yes, there is a lot of bad blood.” North Coast marijuana growers fear a takeover by 'Big Alcohol' 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z He recalled seeing a Mexican sharecropper carting corn straw away from the fields to sell: “I said, ‘Why don’t you leave it on the land? A Boon for Soil, and for the Environment 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z This week I’m viewing Dorothea Lange’s 1930s photographs of migrant workers and sharecroppers. Digital art frames: They're like Pinterest or Instagram — for your wall 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z But Walt followed his own instincts—and the finished film did show happy black sharecroppers singing songs. How World War II Changed Walt Disney 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Jones, who was born in the southern U.S. state of Alabama in 1899, was the daughter of sharecroppers and granddaughter of slaves. World's oldest person dies in New York City, aged 116 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z McLaurin, a longtime District resident who was born to Southern sharecroppers in 1909, made headlines this year when she was invited to the White House as part of a Black History Month celebration. 107-year-old who danced with president can now fly 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Brown explained that in the early 1900s, there were several churches in the western part of the county where the African-American sharecroppers who worked the land worshipped. Rural church member looks for the congregation’s origins 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Greene – who dropped the e after he released his debut album – grew up dirt poor, one of 10 children born to a sharecropper family in Arkansas. Al Green – 10 of the best 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z The son of a sharecropper, Taylor went to work in the mill when he was 19. Entrepreneur raises hope of renewal for Oconee mill village 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z After trying to enroll his son, Floyd Moody’s father, a sharecropper, was forced to move off his land. Effort launched to mark early school desegregation battle 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z He grew up in Maryland the son of sharecroppers, and doesn’t remember watching too many games before that one. 50 years later, Texas Western’s win resonates off the court 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Smith, who grew up in Maryland the son of sharecroppers, doesn’t remember watching too many games before that one. 50 years later, black basketball team’s victory resonates 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z “He remembered as a little child seeing the homes of sharecroppers at the height of the Depression,” she said. Dr. Quentin Young, longtime health advocate, dies at 92 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z Corrugated metal on the building's exterior is a nod to the tin metal sharecropper shacks many blues musicians grew up in. Another Grammy Museum outside of Los Angeles opens Saturday in the Mississippi Delta, cradle of the blues 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z She was a black woman sharecropper, invisible for most of her life to the powers that be, willing to risk everything for a way of life that nothing in her previous experience suggested was possible. The Democrats’ Attack on Imagination Is Hurting Us All 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Many people still worked as sharecroppers, and knew that if they were caught voting they would be thrown off the land. The new south: in search of the right to vote in Camden, Alabama 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z He spent most of his life scratching out a living as a sharecropper. How Jesse Owens' Childhood Shaped the Life Seen in 'Race' 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Ms. Walker was born to sharecroppers, the youngest of eight children. Your Tuesday Briefing: New Hampshire Primary, Obama’s Budget, the SAT 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z Many of those who own the rights lease them to working fishermen who essentially become sharecroppers of the sea. Mississippi Editorial Rdp 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z He said that several black sharecroppers were on their way to register to vote in a rural town in Mississippi. The Democrats’ Attack on Imagination Is Hurting Us All 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Instead, they lost wealth as many were forced to become sharecroppers, renting and tilling the very land the government said they could have. A tiny home of one's own: black women embrace the small house movement 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z For sharecroppers like Henry Owens, every day was filled with struggle. How Jesse Owens' Childhood Shaped the Life Seen in 'Race' 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z Born in 1928 to sharecroppers in rural west Alabama near the Mississippi line, Dial made things from materials he found for years. Self-taught painter, sculptor Thornton Dial dies 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Cleveland’s father was a sharecropper and ranch foreman in Sealy, about 50 miles west of downtown Houston. Houston African-American cowboy blazed new trails 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z The men, many of them sharecroppers who lived in poverty, agreed to participate in the study and received certain medical services for “bad blood.” In Rural Alabama, a Longtime Mistrust of Medicine Fuels a Tuberculosis Outbreak 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z While landowners got paid for their fields, sharecroppers got nothing. A Chinese Company in India, Stumbling Over a Culture 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z But the 66-year-old son of Georgia sharecroppers knows what he did, both in the ring and outside of it, and he says that’s good enough for him. Boxing’s Larry Holmes, long underrated, now cast in bronze 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z Its majority black populations were once slaves, and later, after the Civil War, they were sharecroppers. New Diabetes Cases, at Long Last, Begin to Fall in the United States 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Burnette said that when he was growing up in the 1940s and 1950s as a sharecropper’s son, Godwin was a bustling railway stop. Town of Godwin forgot that selling alcohol there was legal 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z Along remote roads were the gravestones of sharecroppers, toppled beside the cotton fields. The Last Thanksgiving for a Family Tradition 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Indian laws on land deals are fairly generous by developing-country standards, calling for compensation for tenant farmers and sharecroppers. A Chinese Company in India, Stumbling Over a Culture 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z The son of a sharecropper who spent his childhood raising chickens, Lewis said he hoped his rise from poverty in rural Alabama to being elected a member of Congress would inspire them. From Selma to Alexandria: Civil rights leader shares lessons with students 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Barnett, a Tuscumbia native living in Decatur, takes pictures of barns and sharecropper houses and turns them into paintings, capturing many old buildings that are no longer standing. Paintings capture disappearing landscapes of North Alabama 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z The mansions are still there, showing their years and inhabited by the descendants of the slaves and sharecroppers whose labour enriched the former owners. Poorest town in poorest state: segregation is gone but so are the jobs 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z Makos, a masterful storyteller, focuses on Jesse Brown, who grew up in a Mississippi sharecropper family, graduated from high school, joined the U.S. ‘Devotion’ perfectly paced, cruises along in the fast lane 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Brown was the black son of a poor sharecropper from Lux, Mississippi, just a speck on the map near Hattiesburg. New book chronicles remarkable Korean War friendship 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z His mother, Virginia, daughter of a sharecropper, nursed his father and then devoted her life to raising Kirby. A Couple’s Most Difficult Challenge 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z “I always loved the landscape of the agricultural culture and the buildings associated with it, these sharecropper houses speak to that,” Barnett said. Paintings capture disappearing landscapes of North Alabama 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z The young, black schoolteacher — granddaughter of sharecroppers and daughter of a cafeteria worker and a truck driver — gained a mentor and powerful friend who introduced her to the upper echelon of American politics and wealth. Jeb Bush gave this black community a charter school. Then he moved on. 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z Curry said he was deeply shaped by his Baptist grandmother, the daughter of sharecroppers and granddaughter of slaves. First black Episcopal Church leader will continue his father’s teachings 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z There will be three professors on the panel who look at perspectives of the Union solider, existing planters and newly liberated slaves working as sharecroppers, Smith said. Handmade flag comes back to Spartanburg after 150 years 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z Filmmaker Rex Miller traces her path from her early years as a South Carolina sharecropper's daughter to her elevation as queen of the highly segregated tennis world of the 1950s. Friday TV Highlights: 'Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church' on Showtime 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z His dad was a South Carolina sharecropper, then a laborer. Rep. Cummings wants to know more about settlement-purchase firms 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z It affected blacks more severely but there were more white sharecroppers than black in every census. “People know next to nothing about Reconstruction”: The pernicious Civil War revisionism poisoning American history students 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z By the first century, most of Rome’s citizens were living in semi-idleness, while thousands of slaves and coloni—the equivalent of sharecroppers—toiled ceaselessly on their behalf. From Gladiators to Mickey Mouse: Disneyland Turns 60 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Hamm rose from poverty in Oklahoma, the 13th child of a sharecropper, and spent the early part of his career working dirty oil jobs, cleaning tank bottoms and trucking supplies to drilling sites. How the plunging price of oil has set off a new global contest 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z He remembered how his farmer father treated black sharecroppers with respect while believing that they were inferior. 'Go Set a Watchman' Sparks a Flurry of Varied Reader Reactions 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z The world's oldest living person, the daughter of sharecroppers and granddaughter of slaves, celebrated her 116th birthday on Monday in New York. World's oldest person celebrates 116th birthday in New York City 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z |
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