Portrait of an elderly sharecropper and his wife, circa 1937.
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It's a period piece about a sharecropper and his community.
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Her father was a sharecropper, and the family struggled financially.
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He was the youngest of three sons to a sharecropper farmer.
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By 1880 he was a sharecropper, the lowest form of tenancy.
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Courageously, she dressed up as a sharecropper and went to Arkansas.
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Her father was a sharecropper who supported his family by picking cotton.
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I'm sure he [the racist Mississippi sharecropper] loves his wife, his children.
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What they're saying: Go deeper: Elijah Cummings: Son of sharecropper eulogized by presidents
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Taylor, then a 24-year-old sharecropper, was raped by six white men.
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From the home of a sharecropper he learned hard work, humility and perseverance.
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You are the eighth child of a sharecropper — not so different from your heroine.
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She led a national campaign on behalf of a black sharecropper on death row.
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Lightfoot, the granddaughter of a sharecropper from Arkansas, was born and raised in Ohio.
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He was born in pre-civil-rights Georgia in 19833 to a sharecropper family.
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Mr. Morgan plays her sharecropper husband, and he's the best thing in the movie.
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His father was a sharecropper, and Mr. Lucas recalled picking cotton as a boy.
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Clinton's, recounted his father's history as a sharecropper, he was nearly drowned out at times.
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Nellie is a large-breasted, plucky daughter of a sharecropper, living during the Reconstruction era.
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The big picture: Cummings, the son of a sharecropper, was an important Civil Rights era figure.
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My great grandfather after him was a sharecropper, which isn't that far off from slavery. Me?
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Some of the wooden shacks have long since been abandoned by sharecropper families who went North.
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His father, Sam, was a sharecropper, and his mother, the former Mamie Scott, was a homemaker.
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Brandon learned her father was a sharecropper who was murdered when she was 14 months old.
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In the late 1003s she was accused, with her two sons, of killing a white sharecropper.
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I'd seen "colored entrance" signs on public buildings and falling-down sharecropper shacks along the road.
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The men took the sharecropper out of the car, hanged him from a tree and shot him.
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Recy Taylor, a 21960-year-old African-American sharecropper, was walking home from church in Abbeville, Ala.
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He focused on characters like a Southern sharecropper and a woman on the Long Walk of the Navajo.
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My dad actually was the youngest of 13 and he was a sharecropper in my father s lifetime.
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The sharecropper and Roberts had quarreled earlier; Higginbotham had objected to Roberts's running cattle over his rented field.
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He grew up in rural poverty in northern Alabama, raised by his father, a sawmill worker and sharecropper.
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The brothers, I learned, were the grandsons of a sharecropper and had built their fracking business from scratch.
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She and her sharecropper husband owned a farm and a house and survived the 2011 famine by bartering for essentials.
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For the character Black Man With Watermelon, he began with clothing a sharecropper might have worn, then added a beanie.
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Similarly, Jeffrey Gibson's heavy bag sculpture "Sharecropper" (2015) is installed in a room with several photographic portraits of native, black Mississippians.
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One person would own a lot of land, and you could either rent it as a tenant farmer or a sharecropper.
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But the debt peonage relations meant that if you were a black sharecropper in the South, you didn't have any cash.
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Poverty lurks in every corner of this country, from New Delhi's busiest intersections to the sharecropper cotton farms across central India.
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A sweet-voiced, guitar-picking son of a sharecropper, he became a television and movie star in the 1960s and '70s.
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So, too, is his account of a black sharecropper buying a Model T with cash, to which he devotes three pages.
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A group of Bill Traylor's silhouettes of his sharecropper life was acquired earlier this year, ahead of a planned 2018 retrospective.
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Sixth-grade students once role-played an exercise where they had to choose between being a slave, sharecropper or landowner, Thomas said.
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As family lore goes, when he was a sharecropper in Georgia, black farmers needed a pass to leave their plot of land.
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Mr. Rawls has written about his mixed-race background as the son of a former Georgia sharecropper and a woman of Welsh ancestry.
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Higginbottom's father, Elwood Higginbotham, was around 28 in 1935, working as a sharecropper in the Woodson Ridge area northeast of Oxford's city limits.
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Ratan Singh, 45, a sharecropper who recently got his first pair of reading glasses, said he could not imagine living without them now.
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Rep. Elijah Cummings was born the son of a sharecropper, and died a leader of such regard that presidents delivered eulogies at his funeral.
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It's about a black sharecropper family, the Jacksons, and a white family, the McAllans, who own the farm that is slowly defeating them all.
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Back in New York, the Workers Defense League asked Murray to help raise money on behalf of an imprisoned Virginia sharecropper named Odell Waller.
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Traylor remained there until about 1908 as a laborer—he was, at one point, a member of a surveying crew—and perhaps as a sharecropper.
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The daughter of a Kentucky sharecropper, Alice Allison Dunnigan endured poverty, segregation and sexism as she fought to fulfill her dream of becoming a journalist.
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His father was a sharecropper and circuit preacher who became a nightclub custodian in the mid-1950s after the family moved to the Chicago suburbs.
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Born in Georgia to a sharecropper family, Mr. Andrews (628-2212) spent most of his career as an artist and activist in New York City.
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You don't come from his background—where your grandfather is a slave, your father is a sharecropper; your siblings have died through malnutrition and illness.
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On the west side is the black population, many of whom still live in slave and sharecropper housing that was erected over a hundred years ago.
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We have a rare photo collection taken during the sharecropper time and I know that a lot of these people were enslaved before they were made.
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Taylor, a young black woman and sharecropper, was walking home from church in Abbeville, Alabama, when a group of six white men abducted her in 1944.
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He was born in 1921 in the town of Maysville, Oklahoma, and spent much of his childhood helping his father, a sharecropper, keep the family afloat.
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On April 20173, 1939, a local sharecropper named Jesse Lee Bond was shot to death in broad daylight by employees of SY Wilson, a local hardware store.
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If you were a tenant farmer or a sharecropper, which was the dominant kind of work for African Americans and for many whites, you lived on credit.
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Museums & Galleries Born in Georgia to a sharecropper family, Mr. Andrews (221-28) spent most of his career as an artist and activist in New York City.
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Ms. Worsley is determined to rebuild on land that has been in her family since her grandfather, a sharecropper, and his brother bought it in the 1920s.
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Go deeper: Maryland governor calls special election to fill Cummings' seat Elijah Cummings: Son of sharecropper eulogized by presidents In photos: The life and work of Rep.
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They threatened to remove the black families from their sharecropper shanties, fire them from their jobs and call their loans due if their children went to school.
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He was born and raised in the small town of Snyder (population: 11,000, give or take), where he was the youngest of three sons to a sharecropper farmer.
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After emancipation, Traylor spent much of his life as a sharecropper, and only started making art in his 80s, when he was living on the streets of Montgomery.
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Mary, who was hearing-impaired from an early age, was the third of 13 children; she and her siblings helped their sharecropper father grow, pick, and pack vegetables.
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Happy as Lazzaro: NETFLIX FILM Ordinary teen Lazzaro is content with life as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but a visit from the aristocrat landowner's son changes everything.
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Williams was born in Haywood County, Tennessee in 1908 to sharecropper parents, according to retired lawyer Jim Emison, who is writing a book about Williams' life and death.
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Two officers corroborated Wright&aposs testimony that Bryant and Milam abducted Till from the sharecropper shack near the little Delta town of Money where Bryant runs a general store.
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Their striking silhouettes may have represented his memories of a life in Alabama that spanned being born into slavery and working as a sharecropper, before becoming homeless and disabled.
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Nate Powell's illustrations shine in the testimony of Fannie Lou Hamer, a Mississippi sharecropper who was arrested, beaten and tortured by the police after attempting to register to vote.
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He sent a white farmer to prison for a year for forcing an indebted sharecropper to work without pay, a form of enslavement commonly winked at by Southern courts.
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In memoriam: Glen Campbell, the sweet-voiced, guitar-picking son of a sharecropper who became a recording, television and movie star in the 1960s and '70s, died at 63.
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In 1947, he returned to Alabama, married, took one job in a textile mill and another as a sharecropper and somehow had time to spare to become a Baptist preacher.
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In prison, Malcolm Little became Malcolm X, finding his vocation as a religious leader through the teachings of Nation of Islam (NOI) leader Elijah Muhammad, a former sharecropper from Georgia.
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Roy Bryant, 24, and John Milam, 36, still face charges of kidnapping Emmett Louis Till from the sharecropper shack in Leflore County where he was vacationing with his uncle, Mose Wright.
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Those who testified before the DNC's credentials committee included Martin Luther King Jr., Schwerner's widow, and a sharecropper and organizer from Sunflower County, in the Mississippi Delta, named Fannie Lou Hamer.
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The grandson of a sharecropper, and son of a janitor, Frazier's appointment to CEO in 2011 made him the only black person leading one of the major U.S. or European drugmakers.
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My grandfather on my paternal side, Richard Frazier, was born in the late 1850s, and therefore was born into slavery, but was a sharecropper in South Carolina for his entire life.
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My grandfather was a sharecropper in rural Alabama who moved to Atlanta and became a mechanic and worker at General Motors, so I grew up in Atlanta around middle-class black people.
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This month the 255-year-old Mr Hamm, son of an Oklahoma cotton sharecropper who went on to become one of the founding fathers of the shale revolution, had a different message.
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I am so proud to be a part of a nation that has made it possible for me, the great granddaughter of a sharecropper, to sit everyday alongside the secretary of Defense.
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Born in Forrest City, Arkansas, sometime in the late 1920s and early 1930s (his exact date of birth is unknown), Liston was the 24th of 25 children born to a sharecropper father.
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" He recalled a story that his grandfather used to tell, about a relative, a sharecropper decades ago, who told his boss that he planned on voting: "Boss said, 'Don't get into that.
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But she no longer sounded like the daughter of a sharecropper turned Baptist preacher, much less like someone who had once earned her living as a waitress, a manicurist, and a maid.
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After Roger Malcom, a World War II veteran and Georgia sharecropper, had been bailed out of jail after allegedly stabbing a white man, members of the local community decided to take revenge.
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"One of the thoughts is, especially in Alabama, that the myth of the slow-speaking sharecropper, usually African-American — there's some evidence that it was because of the hookworm burden," Mejia said.
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In 1924, when the other plotline is set, Ava's maternal ancestor Josephine is a former sharecropper who's now widowed and living (with her son and his family) on her own 300-acre farm.
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It's all too grave—the fake sharecropper homes of Tallahatchie Flats rented out along the road, staged bottle trees chasing away nothing, the new outhouse whose crescent door foreign tourists * pay extra for.
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It references a parable about a sharecropper who takes up his plow in place of a bull and works himself to death — a cautionary tale against the instrumentalizing of the individual by the state.
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Dunnigan, who was born in 1906 as the daughter of a washerwoman and Kentucky sharecropper, was also the first black woman to receive credentials to cover the State Department, Congress and the Supreme Court.
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Class described the difference between a sharecropper and a plantation owner, between the enslaved person being worked to death in a Caribbean sugar field and an investor living in London on dividends from the sugar trade.
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Alice Dunnigan, First Black Woman to Cover White House, Will Get Statue at Newseum The daughter of a Kentucky sharecropper, Ms. Dunnigan endured poverty, segregation and sexism as she fought to fulfill her dream of becoming a journalist.
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He also spins yarns about sex or Mister Rogers (even mixing the two a bit), and specializes in benign lies, introducing white comics as N.A.A.C.P. award winners and describing himself as a 92-year-old sharecropper born during the Depression.
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Buchanan (1940–2015) achieved a certain degree of recognition during her lifetime, primarily for small, faux-naif constructions in recycled wood and metal, which are based on the rustic shacks — with their history of sharecropper and tenant farmer occupants — dotting the American South.
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During that same time, John Lewis, the son of the sharecropper Eddie Lewis, and Willie Mae Carter Lewis, was running the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and he was a keynote speaker at the 2202 March On Washington, the gathering where the Rev.
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"All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw," the oral history of a black sharecropper in the region, won a 1975 National Book Award, besting "All the President's Men" by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and "The Power Broker" by Robert A. Caro.
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Obama told the story of how Cummings' father, a sharecropper, had taken him as a boy to a nearby airport to watch the planes take off, telling his young son that while he had never flown in one, he knew Elijah one day would.
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The John Henry-like sharecropper H., nicknamed Two-Shovel, for a feat he performed as a convict worker in a coal mine, stands for the hardships of the Jim Crow South and the multiracial utopianism that briefly flourished in some corners of the labor movement.
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They were forced to be in fields my grandfather worked as a sharecropper instead of sitting in a desk at school until some of them headed north as part of a Great Migration that saw several million black people flee the South in the early and mid-20th century.
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It introduced witnesses that included a child of a sharecropper who went on to become the first African-American president of an Ivy League institution, and a Chinese-American daughter of a restaurant worker, who was accepted by Harvard after her counselor told her not to bother applying.
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Glen Campbell, the sweet-voiced, guitar-picking son of a sharecropper who became a recording, television and movie star in the 1960s and '70s, waged a publicized battle with alcohol and drugs and gave his last performances while in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, died on Tuesday in Nashville.
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Stored in its subterranean morgue (along with quilts made by the African-American sharecropper Susana Allen Hunter and countless other treasures) are its own Diors, Balenciagas and other couture items owned by Elizabeth Parke Firestone, of the tire family, exhibited here in 2005, as well as an example of the short-lived bridge line of the pilot Amelia Earhart.
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This is how the Metropolitan Museum describes Levine's 1981 photograph of Walker Evans' photograph, "Alabama Tenant Farmer Wife" (1936), a close-up portrait of tight-lipped Allie Mae Burroughs, the wife of an Alabama sharecropper: Levine's works from this series tell the story of our perpetually dashed hopes to create meaning, the inability to recapture the past, and our own lost illusions.
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A more confrontational encounter between past and present took place in 1981, when the American artist Sherrie Levine exhibited what appeared to be Walker Evans's Depression-era sharecropper portraits — in fact, photographs she had taken of reproductions of the originals — and labeled them her own work, both challenging the notion of authenticity and questioning the transformation of impoverished lives, via art, into a commodity.
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NBC Sports pointed out that Jackie Robinson, who broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947 by joining the Brooklyn Dodgers and was one of Ali's critics, expressed almost the exact same sentiment as Kaepernick when reflecting on his historic first World Series in his 1972 autobiography I Never Had It Made (emphasis added): There I was, the black grandson of a slave, the son of a black sharecropper, part of a historic occasion, a symbolic hero to my people.
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They include my maternal grandfather, a former sharecropper and auto factory worker; my grandmother, a former domestic worker; my mother, who raised three kids while putting herself through medical school; my twin brother, a scientist who has been a constant companion and nurturer; Dana Canedy, the former senior editor without whose guidance and mentorship I simply wouldn't be here; Janet Elder, the recently deceased deputy managing editor and the fiercest advocate anybody could hope for; Dean Baquet, our executive editor, who wears a million hats, including stealth mentor; and Greg Winter, the deputy international editor, a great journalistic mind who happens to be my husband.
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Elijah CummingsElijah Eugene CummingsDiplomat who raised Ukraine concerns to testify in Trump impeachment probe House rejects GOP measure censuring Schiff Overnight Defense: Trump weighs leaving some troops in Syria to 'secure the oil' | US has pulled 2,000 troops from Afghanistan | Pelosi leads delegation to Afghanistan, Jordan MORE (D-Md.), the son of a sharecropper who rose to become chairman of the powerful House Oversight and Reform Committee and was a key player in the impeachment probe into President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump says he doesn't want NYT in the White House Veterans group backs lawsuits to halt Trump's use of military funding for border wall Schiff punches back after GOP censure resolution fails MORE, has died at the age of 68, his office said in a statement early Thursday.
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