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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: 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: 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: 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: 0807872024 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 394
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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
Author: Clara L Adams-Ender Publisher: Cape Associates, Incorporated ISBN: 9780578388922 Category : Languages : en Pages : 306
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A dramatic, gripping, and wholly inspirational memoir of an African American female's journey from farm worker in the tobacco fields of North Carolina to the Pentagon as an Army general.
Author: Andrea Davis Pinkney Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers ISBN: 0316536768 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 241
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From a bestselling and award-winning husband and wife team comes an innovative, beautifully illustrated novel that delivers a front-row seat to the groundbreaking moments in history that led to African Americans earning the right to vote. "Right here, I'm sharing the honest-to-goodness." -- Loretta "I'm gon' reach back, and tell how it all went. I'm gon' speak on it. My way." -- Roly "I got more nerve than a bad tooth. But there's nothing bad about being bold." -- Aggie B. Loretta, Roly, and Aggie B., members of the Little family, each present the vivid story of their young lives, spanning three generations. Their separate stories -- beginning in a cotton field in 1927 and ending at the presidential election of 1968 -- come together to create one unforgettable journey. Through an evocative mix of fictional first-person narratives, spoken-word poems, folk myths, gospel rhythms and blues influences, Loretta Little Looks Back weaves an immersive tapestry that illuminates the dignity of sharecroppers in the rural South. Inspired by storytelling's oral tradition, stirring vignettes are presented in a series of theatrical monologues that paint a gripping, multidimensional portrait of America's struggle for civil rights as seen through the eyes of the children who lived it. The novel's unique format invites us to walk in their shoes. Each encounters an unexpected mystical gift, passed down from one family member to the next, that ignites their experience what it means to reach for freedom.
Author: Annie P Wimbish Ed D Publisher: ISBN: 9781977209542 Category : Languages : en Pages : 160
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Nothing explains this book more than the subtitle, "The Reflections of a Sharecropper's Daughter - Family, Poverty, Potential, and Progress," that refers to the journey of the daughter of a sharecropper who became the first African-American female Superintendent in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The joys and pains as a family in the south, along with some challenges and successes as a leader, are revealed. Though this book is about the life of Annie P. Wimbish, it is certain that many can scribe their names in these pages and find themselves, or someone they know, here.
Author: Lenora McWilliams
Author: Lenora McWilliams
Author: Osceola Mays
Author: Peggy Vonsherie Allen
Author: M. Joycelyn Elders
Author: Viola Fontenot
Author: Chris Myers Asch
Author: Annie Louise Howard
Author: Clara L Adams-Ender
Author: Andrea Davis Pinkney
Author: Annie P Wimbish Ed D