Sentences with phrase «as sharecroppers»

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.

Almost every other black family worked as sharecroppers, which meant that they did all the hard work on another man's land and then had to give most of the profit right back to the owner.

Hap and Florence Jackson (Rob Morgan and Mary J. Blige) work as sharecroppers, and raise their children with love, as they spend endless hours working the land, all the while, dealing with 40s era racism.

Ronsel can't afford to take any chances, because the intimidating bigot is Pappy McAllan (Jonathan Banks), the patriarch of the family which owns the farm where his parents (Mary J. Blige and Rob Morgan) presently reside as sharecroppers.

The Jackson family may technically be able to come and go as they please, but in living on McAllen farm as sharecroppers who barely make enough money to scrape by, the prospects of freedom don't seem as potent as they could be.

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?

President Jones has led an inspiring life from his humble beginnings as a sharecropper's son to his work as an agronomist seeking to feed the world, to his work with South African Bishop Desmond Tutu, to his leadership role in higher education.

My father worked as a sharecropper for years and years before he saved up enough money to buy that land, and then we cleared and tilled it ourselves.

BORN CIRCA 1853 - 55 on a cotton plantation in Benton, Ala., Traylor worked as a sharecropper after Emancipation.

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While Thomas had strongly advocated and supported certain New Deal legislation, such as Social Security, he attacked the New Deal for failing to help America's most economically depressed people: sharecroppers.

As the son of a sharecropper and the father of Michael Jordan, James Jordan had a singular vantage point from which to consider how fortune doles out its favors.

Jan 04,2016... A Father Lost As the son of a sharecropper and the father of Michael Jordan, James Jordan had a sing...

Tens of thousands of people continue to live as tenant farmers or sharecroppers in conditions little better than those once found in medieval Europe.

Bluegrass music is at the heart of the film, as it was of «Bonnie and Clyde,» and there are images of chain gangs, sharecropper cottages, cotton fields, populist politicians, river baptisms, hobos on freight trains, patent medicines, 25 - watt radio stations and Klan rallies.

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.

And yet, there's an earthy beauty to Carey Mulligan's Laura McAllan, the most relatable character in the ensemble, despite the fact Laura herself accepts her domestic servitude with the same unquestioning devotion as the local sharecroppers do their work arrangements.

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.

The film chronicles the life of a sharecropper's son who served as butler to seven US presidents during the tragedies and triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement.

The sweeping canvas collects an array of excellent performances, with special praise already heaped upon Mary J. Blige as a long - suffering sharecropper and Garett Hedlund as a shell - shocked veteran finding some common ground with a black fellow soldier (Jason Mitchell).

As one scholar put it, the term includes «hollows in the Appalachian Mountains, former sharecroppers» shacks in the Mississippi Delta, desolate Indian reservations on the Great Plains, and emerging colonia along the Rio Grande.»

Speaking from her experience, as the daughter of sharecroppers in Oxford, Mississippi, McEwen said her high school teachers and counselors did not believe in her.

Tillage tells the story of his life as the son of a southern sharecropper, who was killed by the KKK, and of the changes brought about by the civil rights movement.

Told from the perspective of impetuous and inquisitive 10 - year - old orphan Sugar, Turpin's energetic performance depicts life on a Louisiana plantation in 1870, where sharecroppers work as slaves and newly acquired Chinese workers represent unwelcome competition.

Jimmy «Wink» Winkfield grew up working the land as the son of sharecroppers, but he entered the world of horse racing while still in his teens, moving from stable hand to exercise rider and finally to jockey, a career that brought him international renown in the nineteenth century.

Throughout her formative years, she often accompanied her father, who served as the Dean of the School of Agriculture at South Carolina State College, as he visited farmers and sharecroppers throughout the state.

As if to challenge stereotypes, Flemister makes no reference to the cotton fields and sharecroppers» shacks that populated the Southern landscape.

(1930 - 2006) As a boy in rural Georgia, Benny Andrews helped his sharecropper family in the cotton fields.

With that show, we are told, a canny critic inaugurated the enticingly slick and brainy strain of»80s art, and we might envision a gallery space in which Richard Prince's Marlboro man gallops alongside Cindy Sherman as she mugs for the camera, with Sherrie Levine's rephotographed sharecropper grimacing nearby.