Sentences with phrase «sharecroppers led»
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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.
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«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 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.
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.