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 Delta Fragments written by John O. Hodges and published by Univ Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.”
Download or read book A Sharecropper s Son written by Sterling Tingle and published by . This book was released on 1998-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sharecroppers written by Doug Williams and published by Tate Pub & Enterprises Llc. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book I Was a Sharecropper s Son written by Travis Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of personal memoirs, basically an autobiography. The book describes my life having been born the son of a sharecropping family through two careers until retirement in 2017.
Download or read book Bluegrass Banjo for the Complete Ignoramus written by Wayne Erbsen and published by Native Ground Books & Music. This book was released on 2014-05-26 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning banjo lessons have never been more fun! Written for the absolute beginner, this FUN book is guaranteed to help you learn to play bluegrass banjo (How many books come with a personal guarantee by the author?). · Teaches the plain, naked melody to 23 easy bluegrass favorites without the rolls already incorporated into the tune. · Wayne shows simple ways to embellish each melody using easy rolls. · With Wayne’s unique method, you’ll learn to think for yourself! · Learn how to play a song in different ways, rather than memorizing ONE way. · Includes a link to download 99 instructional audio tracks off our website! You WILL learn to play: Bile ‘Em Cabbage Down, Blue Ridge Mountain Blues, Columbus Stockade Blues, Down the Road, Groundhog, Little Maggie, Long Journey Home, Lynchburg Town, Man of Constant Sorrow, My Home’s Across the Blue Ridge Mountains, Nine Pound Hammer, Palms of Victory, Pass Me Not, Poor Ellen Smith, Pretty Polly, Put My Little Shoes Away, Red River Valley, Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms, Shall We Gather at the River, Wabash Cannonball, When I Lay My Burden Down, When the Saints Go Marching In.
Download or read book The Journey of My Father s Son written by Jerry L. Jacobs and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a synopsis of my life with the intention of showing how God intervened in my life, and how I reacted to circumstances He created for me for the benefit of others. It is a book of brokenness and healing. It is a book about how He took away all my crutches and left me with nothing to cling to but Himself. It is about my life in the worst of personal situations—where my life ended at Clingman’s Dome and how I was reborn, with an injection of hope from Him, in the same instant. It is about God’s preservation of my life for His purpose. It is about the joy found around the dining table, about the disintegration of my family, and about how God put it back together the way He saw fit. My life started at the edge of a cotton field in the middle of World War II with a life-threatening disease attacking me before I reached one year of age. It is about my total lack of social skills and how God prepared me for higher education in preparation for speaking in front of a thousand people. My life was a battleground with Satan’s attempt to destroy me, and God who intervened at the last second. Being His child assures me that nothing can happen to me without God’s approval, and I have shared those events in this book. It is a book of spiritual warfare with God as the victor and me as the prize.
Download or read book Son of a Sharecropper written by George Fitzgerald and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the farmer sat on his front porch early one hot summer day, he constantly watched the sunny sky, with his farmer's almanac lying on the wooden bench nearby. As he watched the sky he prayed that dark thunder clouds would move in and cover the sunny sky. He had a feeling that it might soon rain because some of the elderly folks in the neighborhood were complaining about their arthritic aches and pains. The farmer realized that a soaking rain was a must, no just a sprinkle to settle the dust. The farmer knew that if it did not soon rain, he would lose his vegetable, tobacco, soybeans and sugar cane. The farmer looked up to the sky and said, " God if it do not rain soon all my crops will surely die." A few hours later thick dark clouds moved in and covered the once sunny sky. Thunder begin to roll lighting began to flash and the must needed rain began to fall. As the heavy rain moved in it made a wonderful sound upon the roof of the house which was made of tin. As the wind blew and the trees waved in the breeze, he asked his family to go inside even the barnyard rooster abandon his perch. The farmer asked his family to be quiet because the Lord was at work. The thirsty crops welcomed the rain, the river began to rise, the creek began to swell. The farmer said, ''thanks you Jesus for answering my pray. By: Mr. George F. Fitzgerald
Download or read book Son of a Sharecropper written by David L. Roper and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Son of a Sharecropper tells of the flu epidemic of 1918, World War I, the Depression, and the Dust Bowl. Subject matter ranges from old-time doctoring, one-room schoolhouses, and old-time religion to moonshinin, 'ridin' the rails, and hard times. A thread running through the book is the desire of a sharecropper's boy to own his own land. Every chapter is filled with wry humor; tragedy and triumph are handled with an even hand.
Download or read book The Son of a Sharecropper written by Billy Spencer and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I stood slowly and peeked through the rows of cotton but saw nothing. And then I heard her laugh and I knew it was Jessie. What was she doing hiding in the cotton field next to the creek. Then I heard another voice, that of a man. I was sweating profusely. My heart was racing. Jessie was hiding deep in the cotton patch with a man. The snake was a copperhead, one of many in the river bottom. This one was slithering down the row toward me, less than eight feet away. I yelled something and bolted upright and ran through a couple of cotton rows and fell. I hit the ground and heard someone rushing through the stalks. He was upon me before I could move, his knee in my chest, the switchblade an inch from my nose. "You spying on me, you little shit?" he said. Sweat poured from his chin dripped into my eyes and burned. I was scared to death. "You ain't tellin' anybody what you seen, are you boy?" he warned I shook my head no; I couldn't speak. Then I realized my whole body was shaking, trembling in fear.
Download or read book Son of a Sharecropper written by Don Judge and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Sharecropper s Son Life on the Farm written by Ted Sullen and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wrote this book to let all my grand kids to no what life was about growing up in Bellwood Alabama. I wanted them to finish high school go to collage somebody in life. Its hard being Black and being ask to fight and die for this country.
Download or read book A Sharecropper s Son written by Ted Sullen and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I wrote this book to let all my grand kids to no what life was about growing up in Bellwood Alabama. I wanted them to finish high school go to collage somebody in life. Its hard being Black and being ask to fight and die for this country.
Download or read book The Sharecropper Son written by Bobby Dan Cobbs and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sharecropper s Son written by Earnest L. Best and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoir of a Sharecropper s Son written by Clyde Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book about the life a young man growing up as the son of a sharecropper
Download or read book Sharecropper s Son written by James E. Southerland and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
