People whose parents were sharecroppers cast a vote for her.
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The McAllans are white farmers; the Jacksons are black sharecroppers.
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The daughter of sharecroppers, Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford.
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Sharecroppers in the South would collect small trinkets they found.
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The findings blamed outside agitators for stirring up ignorant sharecroppers.
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Ms. Walker was born to sharecroppers, the youngest of eight children.
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In the southern slave economy they were day-labourers and sharecroppers.
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The son of sharecroppers, he left behind a segregated rural community.
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The son of former sharecroppers, the late congressman was born in 1951.
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I sometimes think it's having grown up as the daughter of sharecroppers.
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His parents, Arthur Jobe and the former Mary Davis, were poor sharecroppers.
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Scott's father, like her mother, was born to sharecroppers in North Carolina.
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It was a reminder that journalists are just sharecroppers on Facebook's giant farm.
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" He later called Cummings — the son of sharecroppers in South Carolina — a "racist.
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" Trump at one point called Cummings -- the son of South Carolina sharecroppers -- "racist.
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The son of sharecroppers, Mr. Cummings, 67, thinks he can pull it off.
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His parents, Hattie and Mose, were sharecroppers who worked on a cotton plantation.
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Every publisher knows that, at best, they are sharecroppers on Facebook's massive industrial farm.
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Jean says neither was paid for their work — that they were, practically speaking, sharecroppers.
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" He went on to call Cummings — the son of South Carolina sharecroppers — a "racist.
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She couldn't read because sharecroppers in rural Virginia didn't get to go to school.
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Growing up in rural Oklahoma, Hamm was the last of 13 children born to sharecroppers.
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Can you imagine what my grandparents had to do, as sharecroppers or Alabama field hands?
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There were tenants and sharecroppers who were organizing, there were unemployed individuals who were organizing.
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Tens of thousands of farmers work as sharecroppers on the land owned by the military.
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About 150,000 villagers live on Okara Military Farms and most of them work as sharecroppers.
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His parents were sharecroppers, and Lewis was forced to attend segregated schools as a child.
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Sharecroppers, who cultivate rented land will also get the benefits, which include life insurance coverage.
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Bright was raised by sharecroppers with 13 other siblings in Alabama, according to his campaign website.
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That's right, they can trace it back — and the Bordelons eventually became sharecroppers on the farm.
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He was the seventh child of South Carolinian sharecroppers, Robert Cummings Sr. and Ruth Elma Cummings.
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Title to land was given free of charge to former tenant farmers, farm laborers and sharecroppers.
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Tensions grew in the South, too, where sharecroppers began making money and buying land and homes.
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The meeting reveals that the family's ancestors include the descendants of both sharecroppers and plantation owners.
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But Mr. Dittmer's book turned attention to the activism of sharecroppers, domestic servants and everyday people.
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I am the descendant of slaves and sharecroppers from Dillon County, one county over from Florence.
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" He also called Cummings — who is black and the son of sharecroppers in South Carolina — a "racist.
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Six hundred poor, black sharecroppers agreed to participate in exchange for free health care and burial insurance.
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Her grandparents had been sharecroppers; one of her grandmothers had 11 children while the other had nine.
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Cummings' parents were sharecroppers turned preachers from South Carolina who moved to Baltimore, where Cummings was born.
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He was born in the Jim Crow South, the son of sharecroppers and the grandson of a slave.
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The son of sharecroppers, Cummings rose to become one of the most prominent Democratic members of the House.
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As chronicled in her biography, On her Own Ground, following the Emancipation Proclamation, her parents worked as sharecroppers.
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I tracked down Freedmen contracts of the Harrell side of my family that proved that they were sharecroppers.
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South grew up in northeast Texas in a large family of sharecroppers, his son, Jim South, told CNN.
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Cummings was the son of sharecroppers, and rose to become one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress.
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It was common for these Southerners to work as sharecroppers on plantations, or in other low-skill trades.
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The premise: A pure-hearted young man named Lazzaro lives among sharecroppers on a farm in southern Italy.
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"If there's anyone that's sensitive to race, it's me — son of former sharecroppers that were basically slaves," Cummings said.
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Ms Cep paints a portrait of a hermetic society still riven by prejudice, with its revival tents and sharecroppers.
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Agee's writing and Walker Evans' photography document the daily lives of sharecroppers in the south during the Great Depression.
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Her father, Hoyt, and mother, the former Allie Mae Isaacs, were sharecroppers who moved the family to Visalia, Calif.
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Stonewall Jackson, made common cause with Texas Democrat Barbara Jordan, who descended from sharecroppers, tenant farmers and former slaves.
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The son of sharecroppers, Cummings first won his congressional seat in 1996, eventually serving 12 terms in the House.
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The residents, an extended clan of sharecroppers, grow tobacco, lentils and chickpeas on land belonging to an aristocratic family.
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There weren't many home ownership options for former sharecroppers and their families, most of whom had little or no savings.
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In 1916, for example, the Chicago Defender promoted an exodus of sharecroppers to northern cities to flee conditions of oppression.
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Martha grew up the child of itinerant sharecroppers who made little money and were often devastated by droughts and floods.
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Black sharecroppers would often be in perpetual debt to a store, which was often owned by their landlord and employer.
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A son of sharecroppers, Cummings served for 22 years in the U.S. House of Representatives before his death on Oct. 17.
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Ivoe Williams is born in a small Texas town populated by families of sharecroppers just before the turn of the century.
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It's still not clear who fired first, but white men used the rumors of an uprising to crush the sharecroppers' resistance.
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They began putting their neighbors, many of whom grew up as sharecroppers, to work on a construction crew and growing food.
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WASHINGTON — As the child of former sharecroppers, Representative Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland is no stranger to blunt conversations about race.
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The results: Our headline: Uncovering secret government AI Primer's headline: AI and surveillance My thoughts: Way too generic Our headline: The AI acquisitions war Primer's headline: The AI companies since 2010, carving out another front in the nonstop war My thoughts: Nope, missed the mark Our headline: The AI sharecroppers Primer's headline: The new "sharecroppers" My thoughts: Nailed it!
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Jones, who was born in the southern U.S. state of Alabama in 1899, was the daughter of sharecroppers and granddaughter of slaves.
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Prior to the 1920s, agriculture in the United States centered on family farms, with the work done by sharecroppers who lived nearby.
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In those interviews, she talked about her family's life as sharecroppers in the small Mississippi Delta town, Lula, where she was born.
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The 8th grade teacher's assignment asked students to write "something funny" about photos of black sharecroppers in the post-Civil War South.
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Black sharecroppers, who were virtually owned by white farmers for whom they worked, were terrified to say if they had seen anything.
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The son of sharecroppers, Cummings was first elected to political office in 1983, as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates.
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His parents, Martial and Maria (Montlaron) Poulidor, were sharecroppers on a farm that is now the grounds of a hotel and restaurant.
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Few of the sharecroppers and factory workers and domestics Kelley described cared about party politics in Moscow or had ever read Marx.
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The account that best captured the perspective of the sharecroppers came from Ida Wells Barnett, the legendary anti-lynching crusader and journalist.
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The son of sharecroppers, George (Buddy) Guy was born in 21991, in the town of Lettsworth, Louisiana, not far from the Mississippi River.
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A white family, the Feduccias, owned the land and lived in a big house; black sharecroppers, like the Guys, picked pecans and cotton.
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He is a son of two former sharecroppers turned Pentecostal ministers; his bald head and booming baritone project a ministerial — and authoritative — presence.
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In their view "a deliberately planned insurrection" had occurred, where black sharecroppers had intended to murder the plantation owners to seize the land.
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The youngest of 13 kids, Harold Hamm was raised by Oklahoma sharecroppers, who put him to work picking cotton barefoot as a child.
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Mr. Cummings — a son of South Carolina sharecroppers who moved to Baltimore to be preachers — has represented Baltimore for more than 20 years.
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In 2002 the opera, about a labor organizer who inspires sharecroppers in the South, was reborn with performances in Detroit and Ann Arbor.
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The House could start by investigating America's chicken industry, which has turned family farmers into something akin to impoverished sharecroppers through powerful, exploitative monopolies.
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Goodreau and Ferrara say that Cunningham came from a family of Tennessee sharecroppers, and that he enlisted in the Navy when he was 18.
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On September 30, as sharecroppers met to unionize against low wages, law enforcement officers drove by at night and claimed their car broke down.
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A friend of mine, Mehr Abdus Sattar, is a leader of a farmers group demanding land rights for the sharecroppers at Okara Military Farms.
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Smith, 74, a son of Texas sharecroppers, earned a master's degree in sociology and, like Carlos, settled into a career of coaching, teaching, counseling.
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For sharecroppers who had often never have left the county in which they were born, the catalog was a window into another, freer life.
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Dial was born in 1928, in west-central Alabama, to a family of sharecroppers who had long eked out a meager living picking cotton.
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In memoriam: Representative Elijah Cummings of Maryland, 68, a son of sharecroppers who rose to become one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress.
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During the annual portrayals, the killers drag the sharecroppers from a car, line them up and open fire, using firecrackers and ketchup for effect.
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Before 1900, 90 percent of African-Americans lived in the South, where many had been enslaved and then exploited as sharecroppers in rural areas.
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As a young man and University of Michigan student, Tom found inspiration in the struggle for black dignity being waged by university students and sharecroppers.
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The sculpture Lost Cows, comprised of cow skeletons, steel, golf bags, and mirrors recalls his life early life growing up in a family of sharecroppers.
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The daughter of sharecroppers, who were also of Native American descent, she was inspired by stories of the Wright brothers and World War I pilots.
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The daughter of sharecroppers, she was also of Native American descent and was inspired by stories of the Wright brothers and World War I pilots.
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"My family was dirt-poor sharecroppers from North Carolina who didn't own slaves and weren't fighting to keep them," he said over dinner on Tuesday.
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Set on the border between Alabama and Georgia, during the Great War, Pollock's second novel is centered on the Jewetts, a family of poor sharecroppers.
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The main industry for many poor backwoods folk and sharecroppers was supplying what bootleggers considered "the best moonshine in the world" to Al Capone's Chicago empire.
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His ancestors and kin were sharecroppers, coal miners, machinists, millworkers — all low-paying, body-wearying occupations that over the years have vanished or offered diminished security.
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Martin Ritt's "Sounder" (1972), which was nominated for four Oscars, including best picture, focuses on a struggling family of black sharecroppers in the Depression-era South.
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White landowners were compensated for their flooded farmland, he said, but black sharecroppers were forced to leave their homes and communities with little to no compensation.
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A memorial service for Cummings, a former Black Caucus chairman and civil rights champion who was the son of sharecroppers, will be held Thursday in Statuary Hall.
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They fitted out Ground Zero to look like a juke joint, of the kind sharecroppers once patronised, which required old beer signs, Christmas lights and pool tables.
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A son of sharecroppers who became one of the most powerful members of his party, he was a central figure in the impeachment investigation of President Trump.
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Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the son of sharecroppers who rose to become one of the Democratic Party's most influential figures at a tumultuous time in American politics.
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Sharecroppers worked the land for a small share of the crop and were forced to sell their cotton to the landowners, who paid less than market prices.
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Lawmakers are mourning the late politician, the son of sharecroppers who was in his 13th term in Congress and chaired the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
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Activists have for decades sought justice in the Moore's Ford killings of four black sharecroppers at the hands of an angry white mob in Walton County, Georgia.
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The Miners' Hymns reconstructs the daily life of British coal workers via archival materials, and The Great Flood does the same for migrating sharecroppers in 1920s Mississippi.
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From their twined bloodlines spring slaves and warriors, sharecroppers and coal miners, jazz singers and junkies and Ph.D. students—each one brought vividly to life in sequential chapters.
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A son of sharecroppers, he rose to the chairmanship of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, which gave him a towering perch from which to investigate President Trump.
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John Lewis of Georgia — a civil rights icon — wasn't from the "deep south," despite the fact that Lewis grew up in southern Alabama as the son of sharecroppers.
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The credit price for goods, higher than the cash price, always managed to leave sharecroppers a little in the red even after they were paid for their crops.
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Tancredi is a noble and the son of Marchesa Alfonsina de Luna (Nicoletta Braschi), owner of the property on which Lazzaro works (and where she exploits her sharecroppers).
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And our roundup of Best Weekend Reads leads with the obituary of Elijah Cummings, who rose as the son of sharecroppers to be a towering figure in Congress.
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"Most Dalits are sharecroppers whose names are not in the records of the landowners, so they miss out on government relief," said Rajesh Singh of National Dalit Watch.
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" Cummings thanked Meadows for his statements and said, "if there's anyone who is sensitive with regard to race, it's me, son of former sharecroppers that were basically slaves.
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Last week, the Long Island teacher had their eighth-grade students examine black-and-white photos of sharecroppers in cotton fields after the Civil War, NBC News reports.
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Adolf Hitler tried to do it with the Berlin Olympics in 1936, only for Alabama sharecroppers&apos son Jesse Owens to steal the show by winning four gold medals.
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It was a more radical political movement — a bi-racial alliance of primarily southern farmers who demanded government intervention to ease their plight as exploited sharecroppers and tenant farmers.
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Back then this area, called Cow Castle Township, was home to black sharecroppers, and the enumerator visited here after she had completed her work in the larger towns nearby.
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In 1932, the United States government began the ignominious "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male" to observe the progress of the disease in black Alabama sharecroppers.
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In its formal design this book resembles a slender ghost version of James Agee's text for "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" (1940), his tangled epic about Alabama sharecroppers.
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The companies supply the birds and feed, so the farmers describe themselves as modern sharecroppers, with no control over their operations, squeezed by the companies and punished if they protest.
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Born the son of sharecroppers in 1951, Cummings became an attorney and was elected to the Maryland House of Representatives in 1983, and won his seat in Congress in 1996.
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Trump responded with a tweet stating that Cummings, a longtime civil-rights leader and the son of sharecroppers, was "racist" himself and should spend more time trying to improve Baltimore.
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Trump went on to blast Cummings, calling Maryland's 7th Congressional District "the Worst in the USA" and accusing the congressman — the son of South Carolina sharecroppers — of being a racist.
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"In truth, this is a story about a local community — black and white, Republican and Democrat, plantation owners and former sharecroppers — that came together and took responsibility," Mr. Weems said.
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My dad was born on a cotton plantation in Greenwood, Mississippi, where his family were sharecroppers in the same field that enslaved people had picked cotton for generations and generations before.
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Humble beginnings as a family of sharecroppers Much of Blackwell's history is preserved through oral history interviews she gave to the University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage.
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She wrote that the 8th grade teacher, who is white, handed out an assignment to her students which included a series of photos depicting black sharecroppers in the post-Civil War South.
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Ms. Lanier believes that Big Renty is her "Papa Renty" and the father of Renty and Delia, and has traced them to her mother, who was born to sharecroppers in Montgomery, Ala.
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When she was 3 months old, her mother died and she went to live with her maternal grandparents, Luke and Phyllis Terrell, sharecroppers in Commerce, Ga., about 70 miles northeast of Atlanta.
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It included references to Mr. Cummings's beginnings as a son of sharecroppers and his defense, as a member of Congress, of civil rights, the poor and the powerless, and the rule of law.
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The comments from Trump — including his remarks calling Cummings, the son of sharecroppers in South Carolina, a "racist" — have drawn widespread backlash from Democrats, some of whom have decried Trump's attacks as racist.
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As graceful as Ms. Woodruff is, I personally prefer the alternative language of the singing sharecroppers, led by Angela Grovey, who express their joys and tribulations via gospel and jazz, and even scat.
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Although Perkins was white and my grandmother was black, they were both the children of struggling Tennessee sharecroppers, a population among which the racial divides of the Jim Crow South weren't as fixed.
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Norman Thomas, who had been active in organizing sharecroppers during the 20163s and 1930s, was furious that farm relief under FDR funneled taxpayer money to big planters, a key constituency of the Democratic Party.
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This, for Gore Vidal, was no bad thing, because it left Evans's "austere" photos untainted by what "good-hearted, soft-headed admirers of the Saint James (Agee) version" so loved about the sharecroppers' gospel.
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It was not looking to win elections, but to compel the Democratic Party to do the right thing for the maids, sharecroppers and poor people of Mississippi and to open its doors to them.
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Sometimes the money was collected at a time before the election, and potential voters had to bring a receipt to be approved to vote, making this requirement especially inconvenient for sharecroppers who moved frequently.
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It reminds alert viewers that the exploitation of African Americans as slaves and sharecroppers rested on violence and the threat of violence, and that the instruments of that violence were often agents of the state.
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Before the mail-order houses, black sharecroppers and tenant farmers had no choice but to shop at local stores where they'd be served only after white customers and charged higher prices for the same goods.
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We have our own disabled, our own homeless, our own sick and hungry, our own uneducated, our own slums and sharecroppers, our own problems, chief of all of which is to keep America for Americans.
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He calmly reminded the committee that he was a son of former sharecroppers before adding that Tlaib was not calling Meadows a racist and that Meadows was one of his best friends on the committee.
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The move, however, doesn't go as planned, bringing the struggling McAllans into close contact with the Jacksons, Hap (Rob Morgan) and Florence (Mary J. Blige), African-American sharecroppers whose sprawling brood survives by working the land.
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The emotional resonance of quilting is perhaps best embodied in the life and art of Ora M. Knowell, 70, a guild member and the daughter of sharecroppers, who has lost two sons to gun violence in Oakland.
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But she's old enough to remember the infamous Tuskegee Institute syphilis study, during which hundreds of mostly illiterate black sharecroppers were assured they were being treated for "bad blood" even as doctors withheld effective treatment over decades.
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There were co-ops for sharecroppers seeking better markets for their produce, co-ops for townspeople who wanted better prices for basic commodities, and cooperative communes that tried to create a new world apart from white supremacy.
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Before long he was playing to entertain the other sharecroppers while hauling water to them in the fields; by age 7 he was performing for small change on the streets of nearby towns in the Mississippi Delta.
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Cummings noted his background as the son of sharecroppers who rose through poverty, was elected to Congress and now chairs the powerful Oversight and Reform Committee, which has launched a series of investigations into Trump and his administration.
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I was unemployed, carrying around pictures of impoverished sharecroppers no one wanted to look at, not to mention flat out depressed by the ongoing Vietnam War and the growing social divisions in the United States at that time.
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Often, administrators wielded their power to enforce local prejudice: Black sharecroppers — already living at a bare subsistence level — were routinely given fewer rations than their white counterparts and illegally forced to do street repairs or perform other work tests.
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Deemed uneducated and impoverished sharecroppers, these men were lured by free medical examinations, hot meals, free treatment for minor injuries, rides to and from the hospital, and guaranteed burial stipends (up to $21786) to be paid to their survivors.
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Determined to create opportunities for Black people who she saw working as maids, laundresses, cooks, and sharecroppers, Walker began recruiting Black men and women across America, the Caribbean, and Central America to join her growing beauty empire as sales agents.
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In another life, at another time, he could've been Tom Bradley, the son of sharecroppers who became a five-term mayor of Los Angeles, or Ben Weingart, the delivery boy-turned-developer who transformed beet fields into the city of Lakewood.
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Trump's attacks on Cummings, the son of South Carolina sharecroppers, and the majority-black district he represents have renewed allegations of racism against the president that resurfaced after he told four minority congresswomen to "go back" to where they came from.
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Read more: A middle school teacher was removed from the classroom after asking students to write 'funny' captions for pictures of black sharecroppers in the post-Civil War SouthThe Daily News reported that her blood-alcohol content registered as a .
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For Weems, who grew up in one of the few black families in Portland, the child of a large (she is the second of seven children), close-knit family of sharecroppers who had migrated from Mississippi, that was never the case.
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Cummings, the son of sharecroppers who rose to become the chairman of the powerful Oversight and Reform Committee, will be laid to rest next week in his hometown of Baltimore, a city that he represented during his 85033 years in Congress.
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In their book, "Creating a New Racial Order," Harvard professor Jennifer Hochschild and her co-authors tell the story of a group of Chinese sharecroppers who settled in the Mississippi Delta after the Civil War and became merchants to the black community.
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A recently published book entitled "Devotion" examines the unlikely relationship between Brown and Hudner, one the product of an affluent New England family, the other the son in a family of sharecroppers who lived in a shack with no electricity or central heating.
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But a major motivation for her loyalty to handcraft is sustaining a tie to forebears who were blacksmiths, woodworkers and basket makers (and sharecroppers, picking cotton and tobacco) — and, most important, to her mother, with whom she lived until her death in 2011.
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Beyond the quest for voting rights and struggles to end Jim Crow in public schools and neighborhoods lay the undiscovered country of full citizenship for everyone from semi-literate sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta to the unjustly incarcerated in big cities across America.
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They were among the hundreds of black people murdered in the first days of October 1919 by white mobs and government troops who poured into the small farming community on the Arkansas Delta after false rumors of an uprising by black sharecroppers.
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"He knew there was only one reason why a son of sharecroppers, a child who had literally had to bear the injuries of bigotry and segregation, could graduate from law school and eventually chair a powerful committee in Congress," McConnell said in his speech.
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"He knew there was only one reason why a son of sharecroppers, a child who had literally had to bear the injuries of bigotry and segregation, could graduate from law school and eventually chair a powerful committee in Congress," he said in his speech.
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Born the son of sharecroppers in 1951, Cummings became an attorney and was elected to the Maryland House of Representatives in 1983, where he served as the first African-American speaker, according to the Associated Press, and won his seat in Congress in 1996.
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In the spring of 1969, two adult children of sharecroppers who marched had a son in Newark's wealthy suburbs who would be elected as a ward council member in 20173, as mayor in 2006, and as the country's fourth popularly elected black senator in 2013.
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His belief that black sharecroppers in the Deep South deserved the same consideration as intellectual and economic elites led to his championing a Poor Peoples Campaign that planned to descend on the nation's capital in May 1968 until Congress passed legislation that addressed growing inequality in America.
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At present, it has fewer than 30 markers; it's easier, I suppose, to celebrate the music that originated with sharecroppers and field hands chopping cotton in the hot Mississippi Delta sun than it is to contemplate the oppression and precarious daily existence that characterized their lives.
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Mr. Cummings, a son of sharecroppers who rose to become one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress and a central figure in the investigations into President Trump, will lie in Statuary Hall, the grand, two-story semicircular room between the Rotunda and the House chamber.
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King recognized economic justice as an issue capable of binding together disparate groups toward a unified movement for radical democracy, one that could lift up farm workers in California, rural whites in Appalachia, sharecroppers in Mississippi, Native Americans living on reservations and urban residents confined to ghettoes.
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Dial, who grew up among sharecroppers in 20193s Alabama but experienced much of the acclaim his work deserved between middle age and his 22019 death, is famous for paintings and assemblage that seem to infuse the whole material world with the raw creative power of his own imagination.
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The year was filled with the hope of sharecroppers, welfare activists, and ordinary citizens who joined the Poor People's Campaign Martin Luther King had set in motion in a caravan to the nation's capital -- one that continued in the form of Resurrection City even after King was killed.
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Read more: A middle school teacher was removed from the classroom after asking students to write 'funny' captions for pictures of black sharecroppers in the post-Civil War SouthThe university's Department of Writing and Linguistics released an anguished statement saying "destructive and threatening acts" should not represent the university.
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He was a young black man born just a few miles west of Birmingham to a family of Mississippi sharecroppers who had migrated over so his father could trade the grueling work of picking cotton for the grueling work of feeding bricks into the kiln for United States Steel.
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Before the industrial revolution, this was largely an agricultural problem; farmers increased the yield from each acre of land by breeding better plant varieties and consolidating small fields into big ones, but also by offering contracts to tenants and sharecroppers that gave them incentives to increase their output.
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Jesse Lee Bond had asked for an invoice the day before after purchasing goods on credit, something that was not done by African-Americans at that time as keeping sharecroppers in the dark about how much they had spent was one way for white owners to keep their workers in constant debt.
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They enrolled a bunch of African-Americans sharecroppers, and at some point, after the study started, they knew that there were treatments that would be effective for syphilis, and they knowingly withheld it from the people in this trial because they wanted to learn about the progression of this disease, which is totally unethical.
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Like a series of tableaus by Jacob Lawrence, Anderson's survey links scenes that should be familiar to us, yet somehow keep falling by the wayside in the story of America we tell: There are the boxcars full of sharecroppers fleeing the South; the bellowing declarations of massive resistance to school integration after Brown v.
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Elijah CummingsElijah Eugene CummingsTrump's criminal justice reform record fraught with contradiction House Democrats launch process to replace Cummings on Oversight panel The Hill's Morning Report - Presented by Better Medicare Alliance - Dems unveil impeachment measure; Vindman splits GOP MORE (D-Md.), a son of sharecroppers who rose to become the chairman of the powerful House Oversight and Reform Committee.
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The March for Racial Justice, which organizers say they're holding to combat racism, white supremacy, sexism and other forms of bigotry and oppression, chose September 30 to mark the 98th anniversary of the Elaine Massacre, in which more than 100 African Americans, mostly sharecroppers, from Elaine, Arkansas, were murdered by mobs after demanding better pay from white plantation owners.
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Born in Buena Vista, Georgia, the son of sharecroppers, Martin ran away from home and his abusive father at the age of 23, eventually arriving in New York, where he survived as a street hustler, as well as a transvestite known as the Tattooed Countess, a waiter, a dope dealer, a gambler, a small-time thief, and eventually a fortune teller and artist.
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Maybe I would have learned how he spent his life working other men's fields and preaching God's word, but still found a way to buy a plot of land about 15 minutes from South Carolina State University and then donate it so a community of southern black sharecroppers could have something of their own: a church, which they named after him, Butler Chapel AME.
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Read more: A middle school teacher was removed from the classroom after asking students to write 'funny' captions for pictures of black sharecroppers in the post-Civil War SouthThe poll comes weeks after a suspected gunman, who is white, apparently wrote an anti-Hispanic rant before opening fire in El Paso, Texas, with an AK-47-style rifle on Walmart shoppers, many of them Latino.
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It is told from the perspectives of a number of people — black and white, male and female — to show how racism manifested in the South post-World War II. The plot is propelled forward by two veterans, Jamie McAllan, a white man, and Ronsel Jackson, whose parents are sharecroppers and live on the McAllan farm, who return from war to work the land and strike an unlikely friendship.
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In the 1950s, my father's father marched through the streets of my hilltop village in Chianti to protest the working conditions of the same men and women who had helped liberate Italy during World War II. For months, he woke up with the sunrise, fed the animals and left the farm to join the grass-root strikes of sharecroppers who eventually earned more rights for farmers all over Italy.
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Over the last 50 years, through Creative Writing Fellowships alone, the endowment funded the work of Tillie Olsen, who wrote stories about the deep fatigue of working-class mothers; Philip Levine, a Detroit-born poet and the "Whitman of the industrial heartland"; Ernest J. Gaines, the descendant of sharecroppers who wrote fiction about rural Louisiana; and Bobbie Ann Mason, a short-story writer from rural Kentucky who, along with Carver, brought "dirty realism" into vogue — a working-class counterpoint to the fictional worlds populated by rich, liberal elites.
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