Sentences with phrase «black sharecroppers»
The phrase "black sharecroppers" refers to African American farmers who were given land to work on during times of segregation. They would farm on someone else's property and give a share of their crops or profits to the landowner in exchange. Full definition
But the story really takes root only after we meet the Jacksons, a family of black sharecroppers led by a hard - working, God - fearing patriarch, Hap (Rob Morgan), and his resilient wife, Florence (Mary J. Blige, purging every trace of pop glamour in a revelatory performance).
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Set in rural Mississippi before, during, and after WWII, the film inspects the lives of white farmers and black sharecroppers whose lives clash when their respective sons return from war.
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.
Each of the white landlords (played by Jason Clarke, Garrett Hedlund and Carey Mulligan) and the neighboring black sharecroppers (unrecognizable Mary J. Blige, Jason Mitchell and Rob Morgan) take a turn narrating their inner thoughts.
Black sharecroppers longing to escape to a piece of land of their very own, Florence and Hap Jackson (Mary J. Blige and Rob Morgan) are proud and hardworking, so the McAllans» assumed superiority is hard to stomach.
Dee Rees's hard - eyed drama about a family of black sharecroppers on a Mississippi farm is essential viewing in 2017.
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.
Her story is intertwined with that of her bigoted father - in - law, her husband's younger brother and the son of black sharecroppers.
Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, now battles the prejudice in the Jim Crow South.
A black sharecropper's son without a high school education, he signed up for the Navy right after World War II.
The five of them end up in a shack with no running water or electricity, cut off from town by a wooden bridge that floods when it rains, not far from their black sharecropper tenants, Florence and Hap Jackson (Mary J. Blige and Rob Morgan).
«It was Thursday, June 16, 1966... Less than a year before, President Lyndon Johnson had signed the Voting Rights Act... Stokely Carmichael was now in Mississippi to ensure that the federal laws... would apply to black sharecroppers living in plantation communities...
Their lives become intertwined with a family of black sharecroppers, headed by Blige and Rob Morgan.
Their families are connected by land with the Jacksons, black sharecroppers, claiming an ancestral connection to the soil they till while the McAllans have just recently purchased the farm.
Ronsel Jackson (Jason Mitchell), meanwhile, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the farm, comes home from war a hero, only to face far more dangerous battles against the ingrained bigotry of his own countrymen...
The McAllans are white farmers; the Jacksons are black sharecroppers.
Set in post World War II Mississippi, Mudbound — based on Hillary Jordan's Bellwether Prize - winning novel — tells the story of Henry and Laura McAllan, a white farming family, and Hap and Florence Jackson, the black sharecroppers who live on and work their land.
When Jamie, Henry's magnetic fighter - pilot brother, returns to the farm, he shakes up Laura's stunted passions and befriends the son of the McAllan's black sharecroppers, setting in motion a series of events with dramatic and grave consequences.
Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, has come home with the shine of a war hero.
A black sharecropper in the 1940s remembers his brief career in the Negro Baseball Leagues, when he faced off against the great Satchel Paige, who proves an inspiration to the farmer and, eventually, his son.