Sentences with phrase «of a sharecropper»

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.

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.

The movie: Alice Rohrwacher's first feature since 2014's warmly received The Wonders starts as a story of sharecroppers in rural Italy, where a naive farmhand befriends a marquis, before taking a surreal and inspired turn...

Liz Whittemore: Mudbound is the story of a sharecropper and a landlord, two families inhabiting the same Mississippi farmland.

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.

«This was a community of sharecroppers and the production waste was thrown into the ground, into the floodplain,» said Allen Silverstone, a PCBs expert at State University of New York Upstate Medical University who was lead author of the diabetes study.

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.

Dialogue - free, with minimal text, the lovely monochromatic footage marries well with Frisell's original score, inspired by the evolution of period music into various forms — blues, jazz, gospel, soul, rock, and r & b — that followed the forced migration north of sharecroppers displaced by the disaster.

In the image, Lange crafts a portrait out of the arm, legs, and dusty feet of a sharecropper's daughter who plants sweet potatoes in holes dug by her father.

The son of a sharecropper, Glen Travis Campbell was born in Arkansas on 22nd April 1936, the seventh of 12 children.

His family must live in a glorified shack among the sharecroppers, a lowering of status reinforced by the presence of a white family of sharecroppers that interacts with the McAllans, a warning and a threat of what they can become if they slide any further down the ladder.

Risk - taking is part of Deklotz's roots as the daughter of a sharecropper and one - room schoolhouse teacher who was an early advocate for free library access and bus transportation.

Imagine the shock to Nazi Party elites when a black American, the son of a sharecropper and grandson of slaves, stared down fascist propaganda, bested his rivals and took home four gold medals.

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...

Mudbound is a sprawling epic about the complex relationships that connect two families of sharecroppers, one white, one black, in a rural, barren section of the Mississippi Delta in the years during and after World War II.

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.

Both sons of sharecroppers, «We both grew up in the bitter hardship of a segregated South, and we both were determined never to accept it,» the congressman says.

A self - described «people's painter,» Benny Andrews (American, 1930 - 2006) was born in Plainview, Georgia, to a family of sharecroppers.

Will Allen is the son of a sharecropper, former professional basketball player, ex-corporate sales leader and now farmer.

Allen, the son of sharecroppers, who became a professional basketball player and later worked for Proctor and Gamble, shared hundreds of slides of how he has transformed cultivation practices, using raised beds, composting, aquaculture and vermiculture (composting utilizing worms).