Download or read book The Sharecropper s Daughter written by Clara Petty and published by . This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 248 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 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 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 The Sharecropper s Daughter written by Julie Miliner and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-11-20 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sharecropper's Daughter tells the story of Frank Lee, a girl born to a black mother and a white father in 1930s South Carolina. Frank Lee grows up between the precarious backdrop of being black but looking white amid racist and ambiguous times. She is forced to find a balance between a mother who finds it difficult to embrace her and a father she will never know. Abandoned at birth she is shuffled from one place to another, sometimes with relatives but sometimes with strangers who value the weekly stipend they receive for her care more than the girl herself. She is eventually reunited with her mother but the relationship is strained and uncertain. This is an epic tale that spans the time of slavery through the 1950s. The characters are rich and fluent in the language of survival and perseverance. There is love, loss, pain and forgiveness that every reader will identify with.
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 Stories and Giggles from a Sharecropper s Daughter written by Frauline Griggers Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sharecropper s Daughter written by Billy Henderson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Sharecropper s Daughter written by Lula White Poor and published by Tate Publishing & Enterprises. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you ever ride a pig...drink milk straight from a cow...tear the seat out of your pants while sliding down the barn roof? No? Meet someone who did. In Sharecropper's Daughter, Lula White Poor gives readers a candid look at growing up the daughter of a sharecropper in eastern Arkansas. Lula and her brothers lived in shacks provided by the landowners their daddy worked for each year. In the early 1930s and '40s, the school calendar for Lula and her brothers revolved around the harvest, and kids were trusted with responsibility and freedom at a young age. This meant a lot of hard work and growing up fast, but it also meant a whole lot of fun. Lula and her family didn't have material wealth, but they were wealthy in love. They knew to make the most of what they had, and with it had a ball. Today's world is a different place, but in Sharecropper's Daughter, you can sit back and reminisce of simpler times.
Download or read book The Sharecropper s Daughter written by Patsy Henry and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-16 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sara was so thankful she had a friend like Mrs. Thelma. She confided in her often. She shared things with her that she had never been able to share with anyone. As it turns out, she was not the only one who had secrets to share. Follow along as other secrets are revealed. Secrets that would change lives forever!
Download or read book Legacy of a Sharecropper s Daughter written by Queen B. Brailey and published by Heavenly Enterprises Midwest, Limited. This book was released on 2021-03-27 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LEGACY OF A SHARECROPPER's DAUGHTER, is the story of a young girl who grew up on a farm, with five sisters, four brothers and a loving mother and father. Her journey, as she recalls, began when she was old enough to walk three miles to elementary school, buses were available for whites only. Living on the farm required hard work. Her Sunday school and public School Teachers instilled in her that God had a plan for her.Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding, in all ways acknowledge him and he shall direct your path. Proverbs 3:5-6
Download or read book The Pecan Orchard written by Peggy Vonsherie Allen and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2009-08-16 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Plight Through Seven Houses written by Ernestine Ketchum Tanner and published by Dorrance Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sharecropper s Daughter written by Dorothy J. Cooper Stephenson and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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: 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 The Sharecropper s Daughter written by Patsy Henry and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sharecropper's Daughter, Sara, and her hubby, Jimmy, were both blessed to have grown up in large families. As adults they formed lasting friendships with their church family, but the most unexpected family for them turned out to be their B & B family. Life often knocks you down, and the fall doesn't hurt quite so badly when you have someone there to help you break the fall. That's what family is all about. Follow along as Sara and Jimmy and their family face the challenges that come their way.
Download or read book The Sharecropper s Daughter written by Patsy Henry and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While there are some similarities in the author's background and the story line, The Share Cropper's Daughter is fiction. The main character, Sara, will take the reader down many crooks, turns, and side roads before revealing the drop off and the detour at the end of the road. Don't forget to fasten your seat belt!
