A Sharecropper's Son
Author | : Sterling Tingle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998-02 |
Genre | : Mechanics (Persons) |
ISBN | : 9780805942989 |
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Author | : Sterling Tingle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998-02 |
Genre | : Mechanics (Persons) |
ISBN | : 9780805942989 |
Author | : Al Martin |
Publisher | : Bookbaby |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2021-04-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781098348755 |
This book describes the life of the sharecropper and his family on their various tobacco farms.
Author | : Doug Williams |
Publisher | : Tate Pub & Enterprises Llc |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2009-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781606965900 |
Author Doug Williams's "Life of a Sharecropper's Son" is a true rags to riches story of a life torn with tragedy and buttressed with hope. Williams shares with brutal honesty the life accounts of a sharecropper's son, from anecdotes about childhood on the farm through World War II and beyond. Join this sharecropper's son as he plumbs the depths of family heartache and finds hope in his eternal Creator. This is a fascinating story of life in the southern section of our country. It is a part of our history I had never known. I found the book very hard to put down before I had finished reading it all. - Margaret Aston, Princeton, New Jersey
Author | : Samuel Smith, Jr. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2005-09-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781420878608 |
When the Great Depression of the 1930's forces the narrator's family to give up their conventional home in a respectable neighborhood and move to a flat on the wrong side of the tracks, for her parents it is a shameful descent into a temporary Hell; for their eleven-year-old daughter, the fall from financial grace drops her into a fascinating place where the Hart family, who rent the other half of the flat, speak candidly about life, love, and sex. The narrator immediately becomes Best Friends with Valentine Hart.
Author | : John Downing Weaver |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780890967485 |
Weaver's narrative explores these tangled lives against the background of "the color line," which W. E. B. Du Bois defined in 1903 as "the problem of the twentieth century."
Author | : John O. Hodges |
Publisher | : Univ Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781621900863 |
The son of black sharecroppers, John Oliver Hodges attended segregated schools in Greenwood, Mississippi, in the 1950s and ’60s, worked in plantation cotton fields, and eventually left the region to earn multiple degrees and become a tenured university professor. Both poignant and thought provoking, Delta Fragments is Hodges’s autobiographical journey back to the land of his birth. Brimming with vivid memories of family life, childhood friendships, the quest for knowledge, and the often brutal injustices of the Jim Crow South, it also offers an insightful meditation on the present state of race relations in America. Hodges has structured the book as a series of brief but revealing vignettes grouped into two main sections. In part 1, “Learning,” he introduces us to the town of Greenwood and to his parents, sister, and myriad aunts, uncles, cousins, teachers, and schoolmates. He tells stories of growing up on a plantation, dancing in smoky juke joints, playing sandlot football and baseball, journeying to the West Coast as a nineteen-year-old to meet the biological father he never knew while growing up, and leaving family and friends to attend Morehouse College in Atlanta. In part 2, “Reflecting,” he connects his firsthand experience with broader themes: the civil rights movement, Delta blues, black folkways, gambling in Mississippi, the vital role of religion in the African American community, and the perplexing problems of poverty, crime, and an underfunded educational system that still challenge black and white citizens of the Delta. Whether recalling the assassination of Medgar Evers (whom he knew personally), the dynamism of an African American church service, or the joys of reconnecting with old friends at a biennial class reunion, Hodges writes with a rare combination of humor, compassion, and—when describing the injustices that were all too frequently inflicted on him and his contemporaries—righteous anger. But his ultimate goal, he contends, is not to close doors but to open them: to inspire dialogue, to start a conversation, “to be provocative without being insistent or definitive.”
Author | : John V. Amodeo |
Publisher | : Archway Publishing |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2016-07-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1480833436 |
In 1917, there is no escape from the tight grasp of the Mississippi delta, especially for a black young man. As James Hayes grows up tilling the soil with his disabled father and younger brother, all he can think about is how badly he wants out. Lured by stories of the Great Migration north, he dreams of the day when he will be able to leave and make his mark on the world. Finally on one October morning, eighteen-year-old James gets his chance. When he is drafted and sent to France at the height of the Argonne Offensive by Germany, James becomes embroiled in the thick of battle, eventually standing out from other soldiers by winning the French Croix de Guerre. As the conflict ends in 1918, he ventures to Paris where he is invited to sing at a local bistro. Soon, he becomes a sensation, settles in his adopted country, and marries a local woman. But when he is called home to be near his terminally ill father, fate rises up to meet him and changes everything once again. In this tale of hope and perseverance, a black World War I draftee from the Mississippi delta journeys from the trenches of the Western Front to 1920s Paris and back home again.
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Release | : 1976 |
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Author | : James E. Southerland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780578515175 |
Author | : Bobby Dan Cobbs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-03-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781960620620 |