Sentences with phrase «sharecroppers who»

Thus in parts of the south the sharecroppers who were not too proud to grow a kitchen garden often ate better than the people who owned the land they worked.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

The other story is about a householder who moves away but rents his vineyard to tenants — sharecroppers who are supposed to share the produce with him.

Lola's Organic Farm is named after Taylor's grandmother, a sharecropper who eventually bought it and farmed successfully.

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.

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 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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

Thus, Shukichi became a sharecropper and had native and non-Japanese friends who subleased the land to him under the table.

«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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Born to a sharecropper father and a mother who aspired to a different life, quickly divorced, Larry's childhood was tumultuous.

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.

Sharecroppers Wife, 1937 (a companion piece to Bywaters» Sharecropper held by the Dallas Museum of Art) is an unsentimental and barefaced painting of a woman who has clearly lived a harsh existence.

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.