Sentences with phrase «poor black sharecropper»

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.

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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.

Many black residents were poor sharecroppers, but others owned their own farms and the land on which they'd founded the county's thriving black churches.

It is also perfectly choreographed so that the poor black cotton pickers of Thomas Hart Benton appear in direct contrast to Grant Wood's cheerful white sharecroppers, say, and the gothic windows in Paul Sample's Church Supper speak straight to the window in Wood's American Gothic.