Sentences with phrase «of sharecroppers»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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...

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.

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.

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

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

Not exact matches

The illegitimate daughter of a Mississippi sharecropper, she overcame poverty, parental neglect, sexual abuse and racism to become one of the richest and most powerful women in the entertainment industry.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Hap (Rob Morgan, Stranger Things) and Florence Jackson (R&B legend Mary J. Blige) are African American sharecroppers, dreaming of saving up for their own piece of land.

When the author recalls the long gallery of persons whom, in the course of this inquiry, he has come to know with the impetuous but temporary intimacy of the stranger — sharecroppers and plantation owners, workers and employers, merchants and bankers, intellectuals, preachers, organization leaders, political bosses, gangsters, black and white, men and women, young and old, Southerners and Northerners — the general observation retained is the following: Behind all outward dissimilarities, behind their contradictory valuations, rationalizations, vested interests, group allegiances and animosities, behind fears and defense constructions, behind the role they play in life and the mask they wear, people are all much alike on a fundamental level And they are all good people.

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.

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.»

Tens of thousands of people continue to live as tenant farmers or sharecroppers in conditions little better than those once found in medieval Europe.

Bluegrass music is at the heart of the film, as it was of «Bonnie and Clyde,» and there are images of chain gangs, sharecropper cottages, cotton fields, populist politicians, river baptisms, hobos on freight trains, patent medicines, 25 - watt radio stations and Klan rallies.

Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, now battles the prejudice in the Jim Crow South.

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).

Poor sharecroppers the Joads leave dust bowl Oklahoma in hope of better luck in California.

The Jacksons, a family of black sharecroppers working the land, have their own hopes, which their neighbors manage to nurture and curtail.

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.

«Hap» (Rob Morgan) is the father and head of the household, proud to be a tenant and not a sharecropper.

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 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).

The filmmaker also pays careful attention to a white sharecropper who can not psychologically cope with the thought of being on equal economic terms with black farmers and is driven to terrifying, violent madness.

It's white supremacy in its Sunday finest, dressed up in the illusion of neighborliness, but Henry's demands are a constant tax on the Jacksons, assuming their servitude extends beyond the bounds of their tenancy agreement because they are black (he never calls on those white sharecroppers).

Ronsel can't afford to take any chances, because the intimidating bigot is Pappy McAllan (Jonathan Banks), the patriarch of the family which owns the farm where his parents (Mary J. Blige and Rob Morgan) presently reside as sharecroppers.

Meanwhile, Hap and Florence Jackson (Rob Morgan, Mary J. Blige)-- fellow sharecroppers who have worked the land for generations — work to build a small dream of their own despite the rigidly enforced social barriers they face.

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.

Dee Rees's hard - eyed drama about a family of black sharecroppers on a Mississippi farm is essential viewing in 2017.

The sweeping canvas collects an array of excellent performances, with special praise already heaped upon Mary J. Blige as a long - suffering sharecropper and Garett Hedlund as a shell - shocked veteran finding some common ground with a black fellow soldier (Jason Mitchell).

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

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.

Her story is intertwined with that of her bigoted father - in - law, her husband's younger brother and the son of black sharecroppers.

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.

Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, has come home with the shine of a war hero.

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

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.

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.