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Book Synopsis A Sharecropper's Daughter by : Lenora McWilliams
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 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.
Book Synopsis The Sharecroppers Daughter by : Annie Louise Howard
Download or read book The Sharecroppers Daughter written by Annie Louise Howard and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-04-22 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no available information at this time. Author will provide once available.
Book Synopsis The Pecan Orchard by : Peggy Vonsherie Allen
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.
Book Synopsis Joycelyn Elders, M.D. by : M. Joycelyn Elders
Download or read book Joycelyn Elders, M.D. written by M. Joycelyn Elders and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1996 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great deal of controversy has surrounded both the tenure and resignation of former Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders. Now, for the first time, Dr. Elders shares both the travails and triumphs of her life in an autobiography which is not only a political memoir chock full of insider information, but also a chronicle of the triumphant rise of a great-granddaughter of slaves and impoverished child of sharecroppers to the highest medical position in the Unites States. of photos.
Book Synopsis A Cajun Girl's Sharecropping Years by : Viola Fontenot
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.
Book Synopsis Sharecroppers Daughter by : Sunnie Day
Download or read book Sharecroppers Daughter written by Sunnie Day and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a story about growing up on a farm very poor and sometimes going to bed hungry. It is also about how to work hard and try to make something of yourself without resorting to a life of crime. I believe you will find it entertaining and yet a serious account of what to do and what not to do. You will find incidents throughout that may help you to understand that growing up poor can make you a stronger person and give you an understanding of what life was like fifty years ago. It gives a view of where we were and where we are now. It entertains and inspires at the same time.
Book Synopsis The Senator and the Sharecropper by : Chris Myers Asch
Download or read book The Senator and the Sharecropper written by Chris Myers Asch and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating study of race, politics, and economics in Mississippi, Chris Myers Asch tells the story of two extraordinary personalities--Fannie Lou Hamer and James O. Eastland--who represented deeply opposed sides of the civil rights movement. Both
Book Synopsis My Rise To The Stars by : Clara L Adams-Ender
Download or read book My Rise To The Stars written by Clara L Adams-Ender and published by Cape Associates, Incorporated. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic, gripping, and wholly inspirational memoir of an African American female's journey from farm worker in the tobacco fields of North Carolina to the Pentagon as an Army general.
Book Synopsis Sharecropper's Daughter by : Billy Henderson
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
Book Synopsis Rubber Bands on My Socks by : Annie P Wimbish Ed D
Download or read book Rubber Bands on My Socks written by Annie P Wimbish Ed D and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing explains this book more than the subtitle, "The Reflections of a Sharecropper's Daughter - Family, Poverty, Potential, and Progress," that refers to the journey of the daughter of a sharecropper who became the first African-American female Superintendent in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The joys and pains as a family in the south, along with some challenges and successes as a leader, are revealed. Though this book is about the life of Annie P. Wimbish, it is certain that many can scribe their names in these pages and find themselves, or someone they know, here.
Author :Andrea Davis Pinkney Publisher :Little, Brown Books for Young Readers ISBN 13 :0316536768 Total Pages :241 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (165 download)
Book Synopsis Loretta Little Looks Back by : Andrea Davis Pinkney
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.
Book Synopsis Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics) by : Mildred D. Taylor
Download or read book Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics) written by Mildred D. Taylor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-04-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Newbery Medal, this remarkably moving novel has impressed the hearts and minds of millions of readers. Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, this is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence in the face of racism and social injustice. And it is also Cassie's story—Cassie Logan, an independent girl who discovers over the course of an important year why having land of their own is so crucial to the Logan family, even as she learns to draw strength from her own sense of dignity and self-respect. * "[A] vivid story.... Entirely through its own internal development, the novel shows the rich inner rewards of black pride, love, and independence."—Booklist, starred review
Book Synopsis Sharecropping in North Louisiana by : Lillian Laird Duff
Download or read book Sharecropping in North Louisiana written by Lillian Laird Duff and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Family's history lives and dies according to the dedication of it's storyteller. author Lillian Laird Duff is one such historian and with the encouragement and help of her daughter Linda Duff Niemeir, the stories of this sharecropper's daughter will spark in readers the desire to keep their own family histories alive. Sharecropping in North Louisiana is the true story of the hardships Lillian's family faced during the Great Depression and World War I I. The word-pictures Lillian paints are vivid and will bring to life for readers a time when people were forced to get by with what they had. It will also leave readers hungry for a home-cooked meal, as Lillian recalls food preparation on the farm with such richness and delight that you can almost smell the smoked pork and taste the homemade ice cream and butter. Join Linda in listening to her mother's stories once more.
Book Synopsis Memorial Drive by : Natasha Trethewey
Download or read book Memorial Drive written by Natasha Trethewey and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Instant New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020 Named One of the Best Books of the Year by: The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, Esquire, Electric Literature, Slate, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and InStyle A chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedy At age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to adulthood, she confronted the twin pulls of life and death in the aftermath of unimaginable trauma and now explores the way this experience lastingly shaped the artist she became. With penetrating insight and a searing voice that moves from the wrenching to the elegiac, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Natasha Trethewey explores this profound experience of pain, loss, and grief as an entry point into understanding the tragic course of her mother’s life and the way her own life has been shaped by a legacy of fierce love and resilience. Moving through her mother’s history in the deeply segregated South and through her own girlhood as a “child of miscegenation” in Mississippi, Trethewey plumbs her sense of dislocation and displacement in the lead-up to the harrowing crime that took place on Memorial Drive in Atlanta in 1985. Memorial Drive is a compelling and searching look at a shared human experience of sudden loss and absence but also a piercing glimpse at the enduring ripple effects of white racism and domestic abuse. Animated by unforgettable prose and inflected by a poet’s attention to language, this is a luminous, urgent, and visceral memoir from one of our most important contemporary writers and thinkers.
Download or read book Lost Daughters written by Mary Monroe and published by Dafina. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of a modern classic by New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Mary Monroe! Everyone from Louisiana to Florida knows Mama Ruby--a small-town girl who became one of the South's most notorious and volatile women. In this beautiful reissue, New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe reveals how the indomitable heroine of her acclaimed classic The Upper Room continues to vex the family she's left behind. Mama Ruby has died and Maureen Montgomery is finally taking charge of her own life. With her beautiful teenage daughter, Loretta, by her side, she returns to Florida and settles into a routine any other woman would consider bland. But for Maureen and her brother, Virgil, after Mama Ruby's hair-trigger temper and murderous ways, bland is good. Yet Loretta has other ideas . . . Set on becoming rich and famous, Loretta convinces Maureen to let her start a modeling career with the help of a Miami photographer. But even as they move in promising new directions, they can't escape Mama Ruby--including Virgil, who's concealed one of her most shocking acts for most of his life. To make a future that's truly hers, Maureen will have to take on a bit of Mama Ruby's strength, forge new bonds--and face down the past.
Book Synopsis The ABCs of Black History by : Rio Cortez
Download or read book The ABCs of Black History written by Rio Cortez and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER B is for Beautiful, Brave, and Bright! And for a Book that takes a Bold journey through the alphabet of Black history and culture. Letter by letter, The ABCs of Black History celebrates a story that spans continents and centuries, triumph and heartbreak, creativity and joy. It’s a story of big ideas––P is for Power, S is for Science and Soul. Of significant moments––G is for Great Migration. Of iconic figures––H is for Zora Neale Hurston, X is for Malcom X. It’s an ABC book like no other, and a story of hope and love. In addition to rhyming text, the book includes back matter with information on the events, places, and people mentioned in the poem, from Mae Jemison to W. E. B. Du Bois, Fannie Lou Hamer to Sam Cooke, and the Little Rock Nine to DJ Kool Herc.
