Sentences with phrase «poor sharecroppers»

Many black residents were poor sharecroppers, but others owned their own farms and the land on which they'd founded the county's thriving black churches.

Poor sharecroppers the Joads leave dust bowl Oklahoma in hope of better luck in California.

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But don't they all have to do with how we relate to each other and to Jesus Christ — whether we relate vertically as child to parent, as serf to free person, as baron to king, as alien to citizen, as tribal member to colonial usurper, as subject - wife to master - husband, as Third World country to powerful nation, as sharecropper to landed gentry, as migrant laborer to union or employer, as novice nun to mother superior, as female to male, as poor parishioner to monsignor - pastor, and on and on; or whether we relate horizontally as the grown - up heir now equal to his father, as world citizen to world citizen, as worker to worker, as minister to minister, as partner wife to partner husband, as sister to sister, and sister to brother?

The urban poor, many of whom are children of tenants and sharecroppers forced off the land by mechanization, should be offered government assistance to purchase land and training to learn how to work it.

Set in hard - times Mississippi just before, during and after World War II and based on a 2008 novel by Hillary Jordan, Mudbound focuses on two poor families: one white farmers (the McAllans); the other black sharecroppers (the Jacksons) who work the former's land.

Cuba Gooding Jr. is Carl Brashear, the son of a sharecropper who joins the Navy as a way out of his dirt poor existence and fights for the right to be the first nonwhite Navy diver.

Biggers followed these works in the late 1940s with the murals, Burial, Sharecroppers, Baptism, Day of the Harvest, and Night of the Poor.

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.

I was a poor black sharecropper's son, raised in the deep south (of New Jersey), who walked ten miles to school every day, up hill both ways, in the snow.