Sentences with phrase «day sharecroppers»

Third, Uber and other modern - day sharecroppers are peddling questionable financial products that expose many more financially vulnerable Americans to outsized risk.

Not exact matches

And so the tale of a Green Knight with his chopped - off head still holding a knight of the Round Table to promises made is no less true than the tale of a man crammed with secrets who spontaneously combusts and leaves behind only a black, tallowy mark on the floorboards, and his story in turn is no less true than the tale of a Texas sharecropper's wife who has had a miscarriage only ten days before but just this morning was walking behind the mule and guiding the jerking plow.

Mrs. Lindsey, the eighth of 14 children of South Carolina sharecroppers, raised her three children with a firm Christian hand and «instilled in them a desire to make each day better than the one before and to improve each task, however small.»

Like scientific sharecroppers, they slaved all day.

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

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.