Download or read book Osceola written by Osceola Mays and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sharecropper's daughter describes her childhood in Texas in the early years of the twentieth century.
Download or read book Children of Crisis written by Robert Coles and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Children of Crisis Volume 2 written by Robert Coles and published by Boston : Little, Brown. This book was released on 1971 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Atlantic Monthly Press book.
Download or read book A Cajun Girl s Sharecropping Years written by Viola Fontenot and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Slavery by Another Name written by Douglas A. Blackmon and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an 'Age of Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude thereafter. By turns moving, sobering and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals these stories, the companies that profited the most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.
Download or read book When Children Want Children written by Leon Dash and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former Washington Post reporter Leon Dash spent a year living in one of the poorest ghettos in Washington, D.C., and a total of seventeen months conducting interviews examining the causes and effects of the ever-lowering age of teenage parents among poor black youths. Dash had expected to find inadequate sex education and lack of birth control to be the root cause of the growing trend toward early motherhood, but his conversations with the mothers themselves revealed the truth to be more complex. A riveting account of the human stories behind the statistics, When Children Want Children allows readers to hear the voices of young adults struggling with poverty and parenthood and gets to the heart of teenage parents' cultural values and motivations.
Download or read book The Sharecropper s Son written by Al Martin and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2021-04-02 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the life of the sharecropper and his family on their various tobacco farms.
Download or read book Migrants Sharecroppers Mountaineers written by Robert Coles and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sharecropper s Daughter written by Clara Petty and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010-11-05 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author presents a powerful story of courage throughout her early life as the daughter of a poor sharecropper in the Arkansas Delta in the nineteen forties and fifties. She describes a heartbreakingly difficult childhood and adolescence which produced in her a deep well of steadfast grit while sharing in the hot, backbreaking work of harvesting a yearly cotton crop to supply food and clothing for the family. Throughout it all, her silent struggle to obtain an education is Herculean. You will laugh at the ironies of her daily life on the farm, then cry as challenges are presented that no child should ever endure. Her story also details the history of a chilling murder of a family member that resulted in a tragic massacre of black sharecroppers during her parents' generation. Later, as a naïve young wife and mother, she describes her 37-year marriage and subsequent divorce. Looking back at her life's early circumstances, the author thankfully credits them as having instilled the survival skills she later used to build a successful life out of a tenuous beginning.
Download or read book The Sharecropper s Daughter written by Carolyn Ruby and published by . This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a true story of my life. I have changed the names of my sisters and brothers to keep from embarrassing them. This story I have had in my heart for many years. This is how I see my life through my eyes- the tears I have cried over the years they will never know the heartache. We had hard times growing up this some times makes you a better person. I think.' I was told by a very important person' if you have not experienced any bad times in your life. Look out this earth is not a easy place to live without some heartache. I am sure Mom and Dad went thru more than we will ever know with no education and that many children to take care . My Dad only had a third grade, education my Mom only eighth grade. Think about trying to make in this world with that under your belt I married so young I had just turned 17 yrs old so I was closer to my in laws in many ways they taught me a lot about love They had a large family they always showed their love for all the kids. {My Mom was not one to show her love to you} She always made you hug her first she never made the first step. I love all my brothers and sister more than they will ever know. I just wish them all the happiness in the world. I know other people have had bad experiences in their life as I have had. I also have had many good times when the phone rings and its a good friend that has helped me thru some bad times and always been there for me. God has been good to me all these years I would never have made it without his help. I have tried to write this story so some one out there to enjoy and 'see' you can be poor and have many blessings. I have a very dear friend that helped me through so many hard times, always doing things forme, I dont know what I would have done with out her help, Setting in the hospital long hours never complain. Talking when I wonted to are just crying with me. Janice Koser I can never Thank You for all the things you did for me. Remember you said thier was t
Download or read book A Sharecropper s Daughter written by Lenora McWilliams and published by Cold Run Creek Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an autobiography focusing on life in southern Arkansas in the 1940s and 50s. Life as a lower-income sharecropper is described.
Download or read book Children of Crisis Migrants sharecroppers mountaineers written by Robert Coles and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sharecroppers Daughter written by Carolyn Ruby and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-10-23 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Loretta Little Looks Back written by Andrea Davis Pinkney and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book My Remembers written by Eddie Stimpson and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the author's life growing up on a dirt farm in Texas during the Great Depression, providing details of the ordinary life of rural African-American families during one of the most difficult periods in the country's history.
Download or read book Evicted written by Alice Faye Duncan and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlist, Goddard Riverside/CBC Young People's Book Prize for Social Justice This critical civil rights book for middle-graders examines the little-known Tennessee's Fayette County Tent City Movement in the late 1950s and reveals what is possible when people unite and fight for the right to vote. Powerfully conveyed through interconnected stories and told through the eyes of a child, this book combines poetry, prose, and stunning illustrations to shine light on this forgotten history. The late 1950s was a turbulent time in Fayette County, Tennessee. Black and White children went to different schools. Jim Crow signs hung high. And while Black hands in Fayette were free to work in the nearby fields as sharecroppers, the same Black hands were barred from casting ballots in public elections. If they dared to vote, they faced threats of violence by the local Ku Klux Klan or White citizens. It wasn't until Black landowners organized registration drives to help Black citizens vote did change begin--but not without White farmers' attempts to prevent it. They violently evicted Black sharecroppers off their land, leaving families stranded and forced to live in tents. White shopkeepers blacklisted these families, refusing to sell them groceries, clothes, and other necessities. But the voiceless did finally speak, culminating in the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which legally ended voter discrimination. Perfect for young readers, teachers/librarians, and parents interested in books for kids with themes of: Activism Social justice Civil rights Black history
Download or read book Through the Back Door written by Janet Driskell Turner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-08-04 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heartwarming stories about a family of sharecroppers living by the white man's rules in rural Georgia during the 1920s and 1930s. You'll laugh and you'll cry, but you will always learn. And through it all, you will come to admire the courage, determination, and joy shown by the author and her family as they overcame the challenges of life in the Old South.
