Sentences with phrase «american sharecroppers»
Hap (Rob Morgan, Stranger Things) and Florence Jackson (R&B legend Mary J. Blige) are African American sharecroppers, dreaming of saving up for their own piece of land.
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Third, Uber and other modern - day sharecroppers are peddling questionable financial products that expose many more financially vulnerable Americans to outsized risk.
Imagine the shock to Nazi Party elites when a black American, the son of a sharecropper and grandson of slaves, stared down fascist propaganda, bested his rivals and took home four gold medals.
The legendary African American actress, who earned a Tony last year for «A Trip to Bountiful» and is best known for her Emmy Award - winning turn in the landmark 1974 TV movie «The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,» received a lead actress nomination for «Sounder» as the resilient Rebecca Morgan, the wife of a sharecropper in Louisiana, circa early 1930s, who tries to keep her family together despite tremendous odds.
Fortunately, it's such a good story — a sharecropper's son rises to eminence by prosecuting the cause of his people — that it bears retelling, especially in this graphic novel by Lewis, his aide Aydin, and Powell, one of the finest American comics artists going.
Yvonne has ghost - written and co-written several top selling non-fiction titles, including: Rising up from the Blood: A Legacy Reclaimed — A Bridge Forward The Autobiography of Sarah Washington O'Neal Rush, The Great - Granddaughter of Booker T. Washington (Solid Rock Books) by Sarah Washington O'Neal Rush; Fighting for Your Life: The African American Criminal Justice Survival Guide (Amber Books) by John Elmore, Esq.; Led by the Spirit: A Sharecropper's Son Tells His Story of Love, Happiness, Success and Survival (Strickland Books) by Robuster Strickland; Let Them Play... The Story of the MGAA (MGAA Books) by John David; A Journey that Matters: Your Personal Living Legacy (Lyceum Group Books) by Erline Belton; The Messman: A World War II Hero Tells His Story of Survival and Segregation on the Battleship North Carolina (Quality Books) by Yvonne Rose and John Seagraves; and FREEZE: Just Think about It (More Than A Pro Books) by Levar Fisher.
ARGUABLY THE MOST RECOGNIZED self - taught African American artist from the South, Dial was born to sharecroppers in rural Emelle, Ala., in 1928.
Arthur Rothstein (American, 1915 - 1985) Sharecropper's Wife and Child, Arkansas, 1935, printed later.
Dorothea Lange (American, 1895 - 1965) Thirteen Year Old Daughter of Negro Sharecropper Planting Sweet Potatoes, Olive Hill, North Caroli
Elizabeth Catlett (American, 1915 - 2012) Sharecropper, alternatively titled Negro Woman and Cosechadora de algodón, c. 1952.
ARGUABLY THE MOST RECOGNIZED self - taught African American artist from the South, Thornton Dial was born to sharecroppers in rural Alabama.
Finally, no treatment of political art today would be complete without acknowledging the recent passing of African American printmaker and sculptor, Elizabeth Catlett, whose famous images Sharecropper and Malcolm X Speaks for Us in the 1960s and 70s, among numerous others, underlie the history of a nation currently deciding whether to re-elect its first African American president.
Though the family worked as sharecroppers, Andrews» mother made sure he attended high school, a resistance to the agricultural system that demanded able - bodied African - American children labor in the fields.
It is also perfectly choreographed so that the poor black cotton pickers of Thomas Hart Benton appear in direct contrast to Grant Wood's cheerful white sharecroppers, say, and the gothic windows in Paul Sample's Church Supper speak straight to the window in Wood's American Gothic.