Delta Memories Early Life Of A Sharecropper S Son
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Delta Memories Early Life Of A Sharecropper S Son
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Author : Joe Harper
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2012-01-21
Delta Memories Early Life Of A Sharecropper S Son written by Joe Harper and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Delta Memories follows the life of Joe T. Harper, as he stands in the shadow of a terminal illness;this delightful book revisits Joe's remarkable life and his "can do" attitude. Born in a rural, poor, black family, Joe overcomes the many obstacles that he faced - poverty, alcohol abuse, and domestic violence of the 1960s era. He, the son of a Mississippi sharecropper, was able to attend college thanks to a generous benefactor. This is a remarkable story of grinding poverty, perseverance, and redemption. Written in a graphically visual style, Joe keeps the reader right beside him and provides a bird's eye view as he describes his mothers' tragedy; watches his brother recover from hernia surgery; and endures the family's status which is viewed an object of humor. Come, travel with Joe back in the pages of time as he relives the early years of life in the Mississippi Delta.
Delta Memories
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Author : Joe Harper
language : en
Publisher: Booktango
Release Date : 2012-04-24
Delta Memories written by Joe Harper and has been published by Booktango this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Delta Fragments
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Author : John O. Hodges
language : en
Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
Release Date : 2014-03-01
Delta Fragments written by John O. Hodges and has been published by Univ Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-01 with History categories.
The son of black sharecroppers, John Oliver Hodges attended segregated schools in Greenwood, Mississippi, in the 1950s and ’60s, worked in plantation cotton fields, and eventually left the region to earn multiple degrees and become a tenured university professor. Both poignant and thought provoking, Delta Fragments is Hodges’s autobiographical journey back to the land of his birth. Brimming with vivid memories of family life, childhood friendships, the quest for knowledge, and the often brutal injustices of the Jim Crow South, it also offers an insightful meditation on the present state of race relations in America. Hodges has structured the book as a series of brief but revealing vignettes grouped into two main sections. In part 1, “Learning,” he introduces us to the town of Greenwood and to his parents, sister, and myriad aunts, uncles, cousins, teachers, and schoolmates. He tells stories of growing up on a plantation, dancing in smoky juke joints, playing sandlot football and baseball, journeying to the West Coast as a nineteen-year-old to meet the biological father he never knew while growing up, and leaving family and friends to attend Morehouse College in Atlanta. In part 2, “Reflecting,” he connects his firsthand experience with broader themes: the civil rights movement, Delta blues, black folkways, gambling in Mississippi, the vital role of religion in the African American community, and the perplexing problems of poverty, crime, and an underfunded educational system that still challenge black and white citizens of the Delta. Whether recalling the assassination of Medgar Evers (whom he knew personally), the dynamism of an African American church service, or the joys of reconnecting with old friends at a biennial class reunion, Hodges writes with a rare combination of humor, compassion, and—when describing the injustices that were all too frequently inflicted on him and his contemporaries—righteous anger. But his ultimate goal, he contends, is not to close doors but to open them: to inspire dialogue, to start a conversation, “to be provocative without being insistent or definitive.”
Sharecropper S Son To Navy Commander
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Author : Billy F. Odle CDR USN RET
language : en
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Release Date : 2024-05-18
Sharecropper S Son To Navy Commander written by Billy F. Odle CDR USN RET and has been published by Page Publishing Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
I grew up on a farm during the Great Depression and WWII. When I was sixteen, I decided that a sharecropper's life would not be my future. I quit school and joined my siblings in California. On my eighteenth birthday, I joined the Navy and served thirty years.
The Senator And The Sharecropper
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Author : Chris Myers Asch
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2011-02-01
The Senator And The Sharecropper written by Chris Myers Asch and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-01 with History categories.
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 were from Sunflower County: Eastland was a wealthy white planter and one of the most powerful segregationists in the U.S. Senate, while Hamer, a sharecropper who grew up desperately poor just a few miles from the Eastland plantation, rose to become the spiritual leader of the Mississippi freedom struggle. Asch uses Hamer's and Eastland's entwined histories, set against the backdrop of Sunflower County's rise and fall as a center of cotton agriculture, to explore the county's changing social landscape during the mid-twentieth century and its persistence today as a land separate and unequal. Asch, who spent nearly a decade in Mississippi as an educator, offers a fresh look at the South's troubled ties to the cotton industry, the long struggle for civil rights, and unrelenting social and economic injustice through the eyes of two of the era's most important and intriguing figures.
High Cotton
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Author : Gerard Helferich
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2017-10-05
High Cotton written by Gerard Helferich and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-05 with Nature categories.
This dirt-under-the-fingernails portrait of a small-time farmer follows Zack Killebrew over a single year as he struggles to defend his cotton against such timeless adversaries as weeds, insects, and drought, as well as such twenty-first-century threats as globalization. Over the course of the season, Helferich describes how this singular crop has stamped American history and culture like no other. Then, as Killebrew prepares to harvest his cotton, two hurricanes named Katrina and Rita devastate the Gulf Coast and barrel inland. Killebrew's tale is at once a glimpse into our nation's past, a rich commentary on our present, and a plain-sighted vision of the future of farming in the Mississippi Delta. On first publication, High Cotton won the Authors Award from the Mississippi Library Association. This updated edition includes a new afterword, which resumes the story of Zack Killebrew and his family, discusses how cotton farming has continued to change, and shows how the Delta has retained its elemental character.
Fixing To Move
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Author : Tracie Lowery Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Fixing To Move written by Tracie Lowery Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Children of sharecroppers categories.
"'Fixing to Move' is about the life of a little boy who grew up as a share-cropper's son in the Mississippi Delta in the 1940's and '50's. It's told through a series of short stories that detail how the poor dirt farmers kept their families together, a roof over their heads, and food in their bellies through their hard-work and determination, as they share-cropped the land, growing cotton on shares with the wealthier land-owners. Although times were hard, they were able, not only to survive, but thrive by using their country wiles of hunting, trapping, frog-gigging, and fishing in the bayous and dredge ditches. If you've ever killed and eaten a 'possum, trapped mink or raccoon, hand-grappled for catfish in the banks of a muddy river, or licked your lips and said, "Umm umm!" after eating a pile of fried frog legs with gravy and big cathead biscuits, then you'll want to read this book! You'll laugh, you'll cry, and you'll remember the 'good old times' as you embark on this journey through the life of a Mississippi sharecropper's son."--Back cover.
The Sharecropper S Son
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Author : John V. Amodeo
language : en
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Release Date : 2016-07-15
The Sharecropper S Son written by John V. Amodeo and has been published by Archway Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-15 with Fiction categories.
In 1917, there is no escape from the tight grasp of the Mississippi delta, especially for a black young man. As James Hayes grows up tilling the soil with his disabled father and younger brother, all he can think about is how badly he wants out. Lured by stories of the Great Migration north, he dreams of the day when he will be able to leave and make his mark on the world. Finally on one October morning, eighteen-year-old James gets his chance. When he is drafted and sent to France at the height of the Argonne Offensive by Germany, James becomes embroiled in the thick of battle, eventually standing out from other soldiers by winning the French Croix de Guerre. As the conflict ends in 1918, he ventures to Paris where he is invited to sing at a local bistro. Soon, he becomes a sensation, settles in his adopted country, and marries a local woman. But when he is called home to be near his terminally ill father, fate rises up to meet him and changes everything once again. In this tale of hope and perseverance, a black World War I draftee from the Mississippi delta journeys from the trenches of the Western Front to 1920s Paris and back home again.
All My Born Days
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Author : Kenneth Shipe
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2003
All My Born Days written by Kenneth Shipe and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In All My Born Days -- Stories by a Sharecropper's Son, a historical autobiography, Kenneth R. Shipe looks back on his early life in the poverty-stricken hills of West Virginia, and recalls how his parents struggled during the Depression to scratch a living from the soil for a family of ten. He tells how a New Deal farm loan made it possible for his father to work as a sharecropper in Maryland and describes the primitive processes the Shipe family used for growing and harvesting crops, butchering animals and preserving meat. The Shipes were ruled by the forces of nature: bitter cold winters; a flood that washed over their West Virginia home; and a forest fire that surrounded their house in Maryland and had Ken and his family flat on their bellies, gasping for breath. Ken remembers humorous incidents from his days in a country schoolhouse, and how he almost lost his life when his new bicycle ran off a mountain road. And he writes about World War II, which snatched up his brothers and critical farm helpers, leading to failure of the Shipes' sharecropping venture and subsequently his own call to duty as a Marine in the Korean War.
Trauma And Life Stories
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Author : With Graham Dawson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-01-22
Trauma And Life Stories written by With Graham Dawson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01-22 with History categories.
In this volume leading academics explore the relationship between the experiences of terror and helplessness, the way in which survivors remember and the representation of these memories in the language and form of their life stories.
