Sharecroppers

Thursday, 04 November 2021

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Broomcorn memories of a sharecropper’s son

Purcell Register 02 Sep 2021

Dale Green. (Editor’s note. This is the third installment of broomcorn memories) . Often this responsibility fell to one of the younger kids ... Cool might be a little overstatement ... For the sharecropper, and other farmers, food was often the hub around the wheel of social events, pie suppers, churches, and dinner on the ground ... .

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Civil Rights legend Bob Moses dies at 86

Nashville Pride 30 Jul 2021

Robert Parris Moses, one of America’s foremost civil rights leaders who stood fearless in the face of violence to register African American voters in the South, has died at the age of 86 ... Martin Luther King, Jr ... maids, sharecroppers, day workers, barbers, beauticians, teachers, preachers, and many others from all walks of life ... Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.

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“Southern Boys” Opens at Bass Hall July 29

Focus Daily News 21 Jun 2021

Facebook. Twitter. Pinterest ... Sons of Sharecroppers” at Bass Hall July 29-Aug. 15 ... In an ironic twist, their first opportunities come as sharecroppers on the very plantation where they were enslaved ... Sons of Sharecroppers was nominated for Best Musical at the 2020 New York Theatre Festival ... Sons of Sharecroppers” at basshall.com or jubileetheatre.org ... ....

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National Park Service project documents existing sharecropper, slave dwellings in the South

Hattiesburg American 11 Jun 2021

Preservation experts with the National Park Service are creating a digital database of existing sharecropper and slave dwellings across the Southeast ... .

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Author Chronicles the Life of His Aunt, a Sharecropper Turned Millionaire

Black America Web 26 May 2021

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Robert Finley makes the most of three lucky days to record 'Sharecropper's Son'

The Daily Progress Charlottesville 19 May 2021

Robert Finley's new album, "Sharecropper's Son," will be released Friday on Easy Eye Sound ... .

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Robert Finley talks teaming up with Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach on new album ‘Sharecropper’s Son’

Press Telegram 18 May 2021

Robert Finley and Dan Auerbach are back with a new album, “Sharecropper’s Son.” (Photo credit ... Robert Finley and Dan Auerbach are back with a new album, “Sharecropper’s Son.” (Photo credit ... Robert Finley and Dan Auerbach are back with a new album, “Sharecropper’s Son.” (Photo credit.

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Saturday Sessions: Robert Finley performs “Sharecropper's Son"

CBS News 01 May 2021

... album here is Finley with his title track “Sharecropper's Son."

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Ivy League star, a sharecropper's child, revives a Black college

The Philadelphia Tribune 23 Mar 2021

The bills started vanishing, as if a hacker had penetrated a computer in the college’s financial aid office. A $10 lab fee, gone. A $105 student health levy, wiped away. A bill for $1,500 in tuition, forget about it ... The youngest of 12 children in a family of sharecroppers, Simmons grew up in Texas, just a couple of hours north of Prairie View ... ....

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Co-Author of Generation-Spanning Memoir Which Details Life of Black Southern Sharecropper Family in America, Announces ...

Johnson City Press 22 Mar 2021

And for a young Black American, the son of sharecroppers, this was a profound visit that would continue to shape the rest of my life." ... Chronicling the lives of 14 siblings raised by poor but loving sharecropper parents who were directly descended from slaves, "A Journey" begins ...

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Co-Author of Generation-Spanning Memoir Which Details Life of Black Southern Sharecropper Family in America, Announces Multimedia Event - Grover Jackson Presents 'Back to Kenya'

PR Newswire 22 Mar 2021

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Dan Auerbach reunites with Robert Finley to produce new album ‘Sharecropper’s Son’

NME 08 Mar 2021

Blues singer Robert Finley has announced a new album called ‘Sharecropper’s Son’ that will be produced entirely by Dan Auerbach. Read more. The Black Keys – ‘Let’s Rock’ review ... “It’s about someone who takes on everything in the relationship ... ‘Sharecropper’s Son’ is available to pre-order now ... He added ... .

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White’s memoir sheds fascinating light on life of family descended from Black sharecropper

Williamson Herald 25 Feb 2021

Katie Kinnard White, born and raised in Williamson County, is 89, and she has a lifetime of stories to tell, so she wrote a book. Bits and Pieces. A Memoir by Katie K. White ... No names.” ... White’s father was a sharecropper with a fifth-grade education who eventually saved enough money to purchase his own piece of land to farm ... White was the second oldest.

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