Sentences with phrase «by sharecropper»

In sparsely populated George County, Mississippi, along a quiet dirt road lined by sharecropper houses, lies Chalktown — a small village of folks who communicate mostly through the chalkboards hanging from their front porches.

And it was very easy for them to do that without opposition, because in the beginning most of the debts that were owed to the palace itself — both in fees for services the palace provided, or the temple provided (the temple was part of the palace economy), or for land rent by sharecroppers, or for the provision of water and agricultural services to the land.

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The sharecropper would clear and farm the land and leave it planted with grass before moving on in search of more land; the campesino's function from the sixties on, then, basically has been that of «increasing the value of land that will later be occupied by the big cattlemen» (Slutsky, 100).

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.

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).

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.

Their lives become intertwined with a family of black sharecroppers, headed by Blige and Rob Morgan.

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.

The breakdown: Based on Hillary Jordan's 2008 novel, Rees» new film takes a sprawling look at two families in the 1940s - era Jim Crow South: the white McAllan family that owns the farm (members of which are played by Carey Mulligan, Jason Clarke, Jonathan Banks and Garrett Hedlund) and the Jacksons who are sharecroppers on it (Rob Morgan, Mary J. Blige and Jason Mitchell).

YA / General Interest: Lewis» journey from sharecropper's son to U.S. senator, made all the more accessible by Powell's exceptional artwork, should resonate with teens learning about the civil rights movement and hoping to make a difference in their own communities.

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.

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.

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.

Sharecroppers Wife, 1937 (a companion piece to Bywaters» Sharecropper held by the Dallas Museum of Art) is an unsentimental and barefaced painting of a woman who has clearly lived a harsh existence.

Four of the works — Andrews» Mississippi River Bank, Gibson's Sharecropper, Binion's DNA: Black Painting: IV, and Saterstrom's Road to Shubuta — are currently on view through July 8, 2018, in Picturing Mississippi, 1817 2017: Land of Plenty, Pain, and Promise, the landmark exhibition interpreting Mississippi identity curated by the Museum on the occasion of the state's bicentennial.

Portrait of Floyd Burroughs Alabama sharecropper (1936) Photograph by Walker Evans.