Author: Lenora McWilliams
Publisher: Cold Run Creek Publishing
ISBN: 9781733399708
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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This is an autobiography focusing on life in southern Arkansas in the 1940s and 50s. Life as a lower-income sharecropper is described.
Author: Annie Louise Howard
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1984558773
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Author: Sunnie Day
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1543427480
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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This book is a story about growing up on a farm very poor and sometimes going to bed hungry. It is also about how to work hard and try to make something of yourself without resorting to a life of crime. I believe you will find it entertaining and yet a serious account of what to do and what not to do. You will find incidents throughout that may help you to understand that growing up poor can make you a stronger person and give you an understanding of what life was like fifty years ago. It gives a view of where we were and where we are now. It entertains and inspires at the same time.
Author: Osceola Mays
Publisher: Hyperion Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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A sharecropper's daughter describes her childhood in Texas in the early years of the twentieth century.
Author: Peggy Vonsherie Allen
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817316728
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Without rancor or blame, and even with occasional humor, The Pecan Orchard offers a window into the inequities between blacks and whites in a small southern town still emerging from Jim Crow attitudes.
Author: Billy Henderson
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1475962096
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Penny Parks is a young girl growing up in the rural south as the daughter of a sharecropper in 1949. Penny comes of age through hard times, hard work and the support of her family. She strives to better herself on the Silver Lear Plantation, working for the Hacketts in their office. She has a talent for cutting horses. Penny falls in love with Smith, the grandson and heir to the farm but is determined to chart her own destiny despite their differences. I too was a sharecroppers daughter. It was a hard time but I wouldnt change it for the world. We were taught at an early age to help out with the family, to work and we knew the love our Dad and Mom shared with us kids. Ruby Fae Corely Very touching story. It is cathartic. I could see a little of my own background growing up on the farm. I think all our lives were so different then than a kid sees now. We were innocent, patriotic, and religious. We played outside a heck of a lot more. We had to be creative. - Tommie Webb
Author: M. Joycelyn Elders
Publisher: William Morrow
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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A great deal of controversy has surrounded both the tenure and resignation of former Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders. Now, for the first time, Dr. Elders shares both the travails and triumphs of her life in an autobiography which is not only a political memoir chock full of insider information, but also a chronicle of the triumphant rise of a great-granddaughter of slaves and impoverished child of sharecroppers to the highest medical position in the Unites States. of photos.
Author: Viola Fontenot
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496817109
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 131
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Winner of the 2019 Humanities Book of the Year from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Today sharecropping is history, though during World War II and the Great Depression sharecropping was prevalent in Louisiana's southern parishes. Sharecroppers rented farmland and often a small house, agreeing to pay a one-third share of all profit from the sale of crops grown on the land. Sharecropping shaped Louisiana's rich cultural history, and while there have been books published about sharecropping, they share a predominately male perspective. In A Cajun Girl's Sharecropping Years, Viola Fontenot adds the female voice into the story of sharecropping. Spanning from 1937 to 1955, Fontenot describes her life as the daughter of a sharecropper in Church Point, Louisiana, including details of field work as well as the domestic arts and Cajun culture. The account begins with stories from early life, where the family lived off a gravel road near the woods without electricity, running water, or bathrooms, and a mule-drawn wagon was the only means of transportation. To gently introduce the reader to her native language, the author often includes French words along with a succinct definition. This becomes an important part of the story as Fontenot attends primary school, where she experienced prejudice for speaking French, a forbidden and punishable act. Descriptions of Fontenot's teenage years include stories of going to the boucherie; canning blackberries, figs, and pumpkins; using the wood stove to cook dinner; washing and ironing laundry; and making moss mattresses. Also included in the texts are explanations of rural Cajun holiday traditions, courting customs, leisure activities, children's games, and Saturday night house dances for family and neighbors, the fais do-do.
Author: Chris Myers Asch
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807878057
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
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In this fascinating study of race, politics, and economics in Mississippi, Chris Myers Asch tells the story of two extraordinary personalities--Fannie Lou Hamer and James O. Eastland--who represented deeply opposed sides of the civil rights movement. Both were from Sunflower County: Eastland was a wealthy white planter and one of the most powerful segregationists in the U.S. Senate, while Hamer, a sharecropper who grew up desperately poor just a few miles from the Eastland plantation, rose to become the spiritual leader of the Mississippi freedom struggle. Asch uses Hamer's and Eastland's entwined histories, set against the backdrop of Sunflower County's rise and fall as a center of cotton agriculture, to explore the county's changing social landscape during the mid-twentieth century and its persistence today as a land separate and unequal. Asch, who spent nearly a decade in Mississippi as an educator, offers a fresh look at the South's troubled ties to the cotton industry, the long struggle for civil rights, and unrelenting social and economic injustice through the eyes of two of the era's most important and intriguing figures.
Author: A. L. Provost
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465385665
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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The Great Depression, of Dust Bowl and Grapes of Wrath infamy, was not solely a middle-America tragedy. Families living in the South suffered similar economic and social misfortunes. This the heart-rending tale of an honest, hard-working man supporting a wife and three young children who worked as a sharecropper on the 800-acre tobacco farm of one of the most despised men in Lenoir County, North Carolina, and how the sharecropper’s sixteen year-year-old daughter lived with a terrible secret. Woven into this tragic tale is a plot by persons unknown to murder the landowner and steal his fortune. It’s a real page-turner.
