Sentences with word «sharecropper»

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.

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

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 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...

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.

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.

The dynamic Emmy Award - winning character actor who worked in film, theater and TV («Picket Fences,» «King,» «Roots: The Next Generation») earned a lead actor nomination for 1972's family drama «Sounder,» in which he played the loving sharecropper father Nathan Lee Morgan.

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.

EVANS, Walker Sharecropper Family, Hale County, Alabama, 1936 Gelatin silver print; printed 1950's -1960 s 8 X 10 inches

In the early 1960's, Moses organized Mississippi sharecroppers to fight for the right to...

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

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

J.T. Pace, a 63 - year - old son of a former sharecropper from Maudlin, South Carolina, will never forget the day he met the wife of the vice-President of the United States.

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.

Owner Henry McAllan (Jason Clarke) lords over the property, leaving sharecropper Hap Jackson (Rob Morgan) seething.

Poverty is a «family tradition» among Vance's people, white Americans of Scots - Irish descent who were once «day laborers in the Southern slave economy, sharecroppers after that, coal miners after that, and machinists and millworkers during more recent times.»

Highlights include the 1937 oil painting, «Sharecroppers Wife,» the lesser - known counterpart to «Share Cropper,» which belongs to the Dallas Museum of Art.

Their father was formerly a Louisiana sharecropper and wanted his daughters to have a better life than he did.

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.

The oldest grandson of African missionaries on his mother's side, and poor Southern sharecroppers on his father's side, Fudge was born six weeks premature in a rural Alabama clinic in 1944.

Dorothea Lange (American, 1895 - 1965) Thirteen Year Old Daughter of Negro Sharecropper Planting Sweet Potatoes, Olive Hill, North Caroli

Dorothea Lange (American, 1895 - 1965) Thirteen Year Old Daughter of Negro Sharecropper Planting Sweet Potatoes, Olive Hill, North Carolina, 1939, printed later.

Portrait of Floyd Burroughs Alabama sharecropper (1936) Photograph by Walker Evans.

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

The youngest of 13 kids, Harold Hamm was raised by Oklahoma sharecroppers, who put him to work picking cotton barefoot as a child.

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

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.

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.»

As we have reported, adjuncts at some schools have begun organizing unions, but the title of a 2005 book, Academic Sharecroppers: Exploitation of Adjunct Faculty and the Higher Education System by Wendell Fountain, still aptly captures the situation of the great majority.

Like scientific sharecroppers, they slaved all day.

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.

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).

Synopsis: Carl Brashear (Cuba Gooding Jr.) is an ambitious sharecropper who joins the U.S. Navy to become the world's first black master diver.

And yet, there's an earthy beauty to Carey Mulligan's Laura McAllan, the most relatable character in the ensemble, despite the fact Laura herself accepts her domestic servitude with the same unquestioning devotion as the local sharecroppers do their work arrangements.

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.

Black sharecroppers longing to escape to a piece of land of their very own, Florence and Hap Jackson (Mary J. Blige and Rob Morgan) are proud and hardworking, so the McAllans» assumed superiority is hard to stomach.

But the story really takes root only after we meet the Jacksons, a family of black sharecroppers led by a hard - working, God - fearing patriarch, Hap (Rob Morgan), and his resilient wife, Florence (Mary J. Blige, purging every trace of pop glamour in a revelatory performance).

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).

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.

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.

He was the son of an impoverished sharecropper who died when Villa was fifteen.

With ebooks rising in popularity and absolutely nothing publishers can bring to the table there, think hard before you become someone else's literary sharecropper.

Eugène Atget's Parisian storefronts paired with Thomas Struth's desolate views of Wall Street; Charles Sheeler's studies of Ford Motor Plant contrasted with Bernd and Hilda Becher's Blast Furnace series; Walker Evans» sharecroppers alongside Rineke Djikstra's troubled late - twentieth - century teens.

Throughout her formative years, she often accompanied her father, who served as the Dean of the School of Agriculture at South Carolina State College, as he visited farmers and sharecroppers throughout the state.

Walker Evans, Allie Mae Burroughs, Wife of a Cotton Sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama, 1936; gelatin silver print; private collection; © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Finally, no treatment of political art today would be complete without acknowledging the recent passing of African American printmaker and sculptor, Elizabeth Catlett, whose famous images Sharecropper and Malcolm X Speaks for Us in the 1960s and 70s, among numerous others, underlie the history of a nation currently deciding whether to re-elect its first African American president.

With that show, we are told, a canny critic inaugurated the enticingly slick and brainy strain of»80s art, and we might envision a gallery space in which Richard Prince's Marlboro man gallops alongside Cindy Sherman as she mugs for the camera, with Sherrie Levine's rephotographed sharecropper grimacing nearby.