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How I Got Out of the Cotton Fields

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Author : Raymon E. Crawford
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781482344974
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (449 download)

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Download or read book How I Got Out of the Cotton Fields written by Raymon E. Crawford and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-02-18 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How I Got Out of the Cotton Field is easy to read--hard to put down. Dr. Raymon Crawford adroitly uses vivid language to weave a remarkable story of a triumphant spirit that is victorious despite heartbreaking challenges. His words paint colorful images that breathe life onto the pages of the book—we smell the aroma of the sweet potatoes roasted in the fireplace as we do the pungent odor of the outhouse—we close our eyes and feel the cool breeze created by the cracks in the walls of the un-insulated house and strain to see by the dim kerosene lamp—we taste Grandma Kelly's scrumptious pinto beans and cornbread—we take the journey with him. Raymon takes the reader on a vicarious journey to the cotton fields of North Carolina, many of us recall, as he wishes, our own cotton fields—we are inspired! We appreciate the fact that there is nothing subtle about the lessons Raymon wants us to glean—in true educator style he enumerates them and as a seasoned military leader, he “commands” us (with his riveting account) to read more, and more, until we reach the end of this compelling book. We learn the lessons. The book is much more than a simple chronology of the writer's journey from the cotton fields of North Carolina to the halls of academia—some of the most Prestigious American colleges and to the corridors of the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense—the Pentagon. It takes each reader on an enthralling trek into the depth of the human spirit.

From Cotton Fields to University Leadership

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Author : Charlie Nelms
Publisher : Well House Books
ISBN 13 : 0253040191
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book From Cotton Fields to University Leadership written by Charlie Nelms and published by Well House Books. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned leader in higher education provides “a testament to the power of aspiration, character and education to overcome poverty and adversity” (Michael L. Lomax, President & CEO, United Negro College Fund). Charlie Nelms had audaciously big dreams. Growing up black in the Deep South in the 1950s and 1960s, working in cotton fields, and living in poverty, Nelms dared to dream that he could do more with his life than work for white plantation owners sun-up to sun-down. Inspired by his parents, who first dared to dream that they could own their own land and have the right to vote, Nelms chose education as his weapon of choice for fighting racism and inequality. With hard work, determination, and the critical assistance of mentors who counseled him along the way, he found his way from the cotton fields of Arkansas to university leadership roles. Becoming the youngest and the first African American chancellor of a predominately white institution in Indiana, he faced tectonic changes in higher education during those ensuing decades of globalization, growing economic disparity, and political divisiveness. From Cotton Fields to University Leadership is an uplifting story about the power of education, the impact of community and mentorship, and the importance of dreaming big. “In his memoir, the realities of his life take on the qualities of a good docudrama, providing the back story to the development of a remarkable educational leader. His is ‘the examined life,’ filled with honesty, humor, and humility. While this is uniquely Charlie’s story, it is a story that will lift the hearts of many and inspire future generations of leaders.” —Betty J. Overton, Director, National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good

From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse

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Author : Christopher M. Span
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807832901
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse written by Christopher M. Span and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years immediately following the Civil War_the formative years for an emerging society of freed African Americans in Mississippi_there was much debate over the general purpose of black schools and who would control them. From Cotton Field to Scho

From the Cotton Field to Capitol Hill

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Author : Shirley Noel Adkins
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1646287746
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book From the Cotton Field to Capitol Hill written by Shirley Noel Adkins and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We've all had cotton-field experiences. Your cotton-field experience may not have been like mine, but if you have been in a place or position where you said to yourself that there has to be a better way or that you wanted something different in life, you've had a cotton-field experience. Things look good from afar until you're placed directly in it. Once there, you see that what looked good from a distance isn't good up close. When you find yourself wondering why you're where you are at certain times in life, you're being equipped to qualify for your creative purpose in life. How you got there is hindsight, but how you get out answers and tells who you are and what you're made of. Come and walk with me through my journey from the cotton field to Capitol Hill.

The Red Cotton Fields

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Author : Michael Strickland
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781469956688
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book The Red Cotton Fields written by Michael Strickland and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-04-11 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Red Cotton Fields is story written in the tradition of great historical epics. The story begins on a Georgia plantation in the year 1850, ending on the gold fields of Australia in the year 1884. This is a story surrounding three southern families (the plantation owners, the plantation overseer's family and a Negro slave family) leading up to and including the Civil War. The reader will experience the demise of a southern plantation and follow two of plantation's previous occupants (Bart Royal, the white overseer's son, and Reiner Washington, an escaped slave) as they rise to become two of the richest men in the world. Also, The Red Cotton Fields is a classic love story between the plantation's owner's daughter, Holly Ballaster, and the overseer's son, Bart Royal, The Red Cotton Fields is destined to become a classic. Read it and you will understand why.

Cotton Field of Dreams

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Author : Janis F. Kearney
Publisher : writing our world press
ISBN 13 : 9780976205807
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Cotton Field of Dreams written by Janis F. Kearney and published by writing our world press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author describes her life as one of seventeen children of sharecroppers growing up in Arkansas and her journey to the White House as the diarist to President Bill Clinton.

The Cooking Gene

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Author : Michael W. Twitty
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062876570
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book The Cooking Gene written by Michael W. Twitty and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year | 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner inWriting | Nominee for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction | #75 on The Root100 2018 A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry—both black and white—through food, from Africa to America and slavery to freedom. Southern food is integral to the American culinary tradition, yet the question of who "owns" it is one of the most provocative touch points in our ongoing struggles over race. In this unique memoir, culinary historian Michael W. Twitty takes readers to the white-hot center of this fight, tracing the roots of his own family and the charged politics surrounding the origins of soul food, barbecue, and all Southern cuisine. From the tobacco and rice farms of colonial times to plantation kitchens and backbreaking cotton fields, Twitty tells his family story through the foods that enabled his ancestors’ survival across three centuries. He sifts through stories, recipes, genetic tests, and historical documents, and travels from Civil War battlefields in Virginia to synagogues in Alabama to Black-owned organic farms in Georgia. As he takes us through his ancestral culinary history, Twitty suggests that healing may come from embracing the discomfort of the Southern past. Along the way, he reveals a truth that is more than skin deep—the power that food has to bring the kin of the enslaved and their former slaveholders to the table, where they can discover the real America together. Illustrations by Stephen Crotts

Cotton Fields No More

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Author : Gilbert C. Fite
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 081318469X
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Cotton Fields No More written by Gilbert C. Fite and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No general history of southern farming since the end of slavery has been published until now. For the first time, Gilbert C. Fite has drawn together the many threads that make up commercial agricultural development in the eleven states of the old Confederacy, to explain why agricultural change was so slow in the South, and then to show how the agents of change worked after 1933 to destroy the old and produce a new agriculture. Fite traces the decline and departure of King Cotton as the hard taskmaster of the region, and the replacement of cotton by a somewhat more democratically rewarding group of farm products: poultry, cattle, swine; soybeans; citrus and other fruits; vegetables; rice; dairy products; and forest products. He shows how such crop changes were related to other developments, such as the rise of a capital base in the South, mainly after World War II; technological innovation in farming equipment; and urbanization and regional population shifts. Based largely upon primary sources, Cotton Fields No More will become the standard work on post-Civil War agriculture in the South. It will be welcomed by students of the American South and of United States agriculture, economic, and social history.

Working Cotton

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Author : Sherley Anne Williams
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152996246
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Working Cotton written by Sherley Anne Williams and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1992 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young black girl relates the daily events of her family's migrant life in the cotton fields of central California.

Cotton Fields and Skyscrapers

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Author : David R. Goldfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780801839467
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Cotton Fields and Skyscrapers written by David R. Goldfield and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Circuit

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Author : Francisco Jiménez
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826317971
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book The Circuit written by Francisco Jiménez and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories about the life of a migrant family.

From the Cotton Fields to the Mission Fields

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Author : Reverend Earlene Davis
Publisher : Writers Republic LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book From the Cotton Fields to the Mission Fields written by Reverend Earlene Davis and published by Writers Republic LLC. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a real story of how one black girl of many grew up in a segregated Mississippi town. It could have been in any of the Southern States, but hers was Mississippi, where cotton was the money-making commodity and where cotton was grown in the state for the White man by the Black sharecroppers. I write this story so that this generation may know how they got to where they are now. Some of them only get bits and pieces of their grandmothers and grandfathers' journey from the cotton fields, tobacco fields, beans, cabbages, or wherever field they were planted to the place where they are now. This is their story. Read it, talk about it with your family, and share it with your friends. Yes, there are going to be challenges and obstacles along your life journey; but don't stop, keep hope alive, pray and keep the faith, and never give up on your dreams.

From the Cotton Fields to the State Capital

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Author : Laverne Deloris Sing
Publisher : America Star Books
ISBN 13 : 9781629079264
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (792 download)

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Download or read book From the Cotton Fields to the State Capital written by Laverne Deloris Sing and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is centered around the different aspects that happened in my life, situations I had to deal with beginning with my childhood, young adult life, family life, and the many challenges I faced when I became the first black, female firefighter in the state of Mississippi.

From the Cotton Field to the Computer Field

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Author : John Robert Finch
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1403399611
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book From the Cotton Field to the Computer Field written by John Robert Finch and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2003-05-07 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Cotton Field to the Computer Field is an autobiographical narrative about the life of John Robert Finch. It chronicles his journey through the military, in the work force, and within family exchanges. It also examines the challenges he faced as a black man from the south and his involvement as a descendant of a former slave. The narrative begins (prelude) with the author?s motivation for writing the narrative. He expounds upon the cathartic rewards of writing the work as well as the pride that has come from knowing his roots. He writes about his family as cotton sharecroppers and its unending cycle of work for the landlord, "Regardless of the how hard we worked or how many bales of cotton we produced in a season, we never made enough money in the season to break even with the landlord. Thus, the landlord had us hooked for another cotton life cycle". This book is fascinating--rich in history and cultural flavor. His work illustrate life as a constant process of ups and downs, obstacles and roadblocks, but proves eloquently that challenges are surmountable and that faith should be kept in that, among other things. From the Cotton Field to the Computer Field is a joy to read ? easy and colloquial.

From the Cotton Field to Western Illinois University Campus

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Author : James W. Johnson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387207326
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book From the Cotton Field to Western Illinois University Campus written by James W. Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-09-03 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoir of James Walker Johnson, former Director of Gwendolyn Brooks Cultural Center at Western Illinois University.

Across the Cotton Fields

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Author : Diane T. Ashley
Publisher : Barbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1620298678
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Across the Cotton Fields written by Diane T. Ashley and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexandra Lewis’s father has been exposed as a thief and killed in a shootout. Her grandmother insists that she carry out her duty to the family by marrying a wealthy man, regardless of whether she loves him. And Alexandra cannot understand how a loving God could allow all this to happen. Jeremiah LeGrand dreams large and needs a wife who shares his vision—certainly not someone like the beautiful but shallow debutante, Alexandra Lewis. When Alexandra learns of a plot to destroy Jeremiah’s home and fields, will she find a way to warn this man she has come to love?

Camp-fire and Cotton-field

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Author : Thomas W. Knox
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752587652
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book Camp-fire and Cotton-field written by Thomas W. Knox and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. Southern Adventure in time of war. Life with the union armies, and residence on a Louisiana Plantation.