Sentences with phrase «from sharecropper»

The first of three volumes about Lewis» journey from sharecropper's son to U.S. senator, this exceptionally illustrated graphic novel focuses on his boyhood through his college years, when he met nonviolent activists who showed him a means of undermining segregation.

Joycelyn Elders, M.D.: From Sharecropper's Daughter to Surgeon General of the United States of America.

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.

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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).

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.

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.

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.

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).

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...

«Now students are walking into the back of the school building like sharecroppers from the 1930s,» Griffin said.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

ARGUABLY THE MOST RECOGNIZED self - taught African American artist from the South, Dial was born to sharecroppers in rural Emelle, Ala., in 1928.

Enormous variety, from modernist abstraction to rural, regional romanticism, Harlem nights, gay cruising, dance marathons, lowering factories and railyards, sharecroppers in the field: it was all there.

The acquisitions include: Benny Andrews (1930 2006), Mississippi River Bank (Trail of Tears Series), 2005; McArthur Binion (b. 1946), DNA: Black Painting: IV, 2015; Jeffrey Gibson (b. 1972), Sharecropper, 2015; Titus Kaphar (b. 1976), Darker Than Cotton, 2018; Glenn Ligon (b. 1960) Condition Report, 2000; Deborah Luster (b. 1951), six gelatin silver prints from the series One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana, 1999 2001; Toyin Ojih Odutola (b. 1985), The Engagement, 2015; Noah Saterstrom (b. 1974), Road to Shubuta, 2016; and Hank Willis Thomas (b. 1976), Flying Geese, 2012.

ARGUABLY THE MOST RECOGNIZED self - taught African American artist from the South, Thornton Dial was born to sharecroppers in rural Alabama.

Born in 1928 to sharecroppers in rural west Alabama near the Mississippi line, Dial made things from materials he found for years.

Born to a family of sharecroppers in Plainview, Ga., after serving in the Korean War, Andrews graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago and headed for New York where he practiced his craft on the Lower East Side.

From what we saw, there are too many unfortunate similarities between the neglected neighborhoods and sharecropper towns of the South and Indian reserves up here (our own national shame).

The only place where sundown towns are scarce is in the traditional south, where the labor of black slaves and later sharecroppers was too valuable and commonplace to expel from white communities.