Valley says goodbye to longtime Wasilla benefactor - Frontiersman
20 May 2012, 12:25 am
His father was the son of a coal miner and a World War I veteran, his mother the daughter of a sharecropper. Often, his parents would go without food so the children could eat. He would describe the different homes he lived in as well, Hall said.

Piling debts drive farmer to suicide in Burdwan - Times of India
19 May 2012, 4:54 pm
BURDWAN: Unable to withstand the pressure of piling debts, a sharecropper took pesticide at Baranagar village under Pandua police station. Tapan Munda, 42, had allegedly incurred a huge debt in the market and drank pesticide on Thursday.

London will be an Olympic Fortress - Examiner
19 May 2012, 9:52 am
With these two sprinters out,  Ohio State’s great Jesse Owens , a son of a sharecropper and grandson of a  slave, led the way, for the USA to put the Olympic Torch to Adolph Hitler’s plans. Unfortunately, all too often, the Olympics has had its share ...

Blues Travelers - New York Times
18 May 2012, 8:27 am
Tamke and I are at the annual Otha Turner Family Picnic, a legendary jam session that takes place every summer behind a tumbledown sharecropper’s shack deep in Mississippi’s hill country. The interracial crowd is a few hundred strong and ...

Just-released novel based on local man’s rise from poverty - Jupiter Courier
17 May 2012, 10:37 am
VERO BEACH — "The sharecropper," a new novel by Vero Beach author Milt Thomas, is inspired by the early life of long-time local resident Jim Coffey. “Next to slavery itself, sharecropping was the worst form of economic bondage for poor ...

Glen Campbell: A cowboy's farewell - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
17 May 2012, 12:43 am
Decades earlier, that determination took him from an impoverished childhood in rural Delight, Ark., one of a dozen children born to sharecropper Wes Campbell and wife Carrie. He began playing a $7.50 guitar as a kid and at 16, left for Albuquerque to play ...

The Black Reel Awards announces 'Registry of Honor' films - Examiner
12 May 2012, 9:46 am
Paul Robeson, in his film debut, plays the prisoner and his twin brother. In a juke joint, sharecropper Zeke falls for a beautiful dancer, Chick, but she’s only setting him up for a rigged craps game. Hallelujah! was King Vidor’s first sound film ...

Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist receives history award from Rutgers for book on African American migration - NJ.com
11 May 2012, 6:22 pm
Wilkerson’s book, "The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America’s Great Migration," published in 2010, used the personal stories of three people to trace the migration: a sharecropper’s wife from Mississippi who went to Chicago in ...

Mom a popular song subject for country crooner - Payson Roundup
11 May 2012, 12:25 pm
Eddy was born on May 15, 1918 on a farm near Henderson, Tenn. His father, a sharecropper, played the fiddle, while his mother played guitar. As a boy, Arnold helped on the farm. Arnold attended Pinson High School in Pinson, Tenn., where he ...

Once Hailed as Army Pioneer, Now Battling to Stay on the Job - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
11 May 2012, 11:56 am
Small, wiry and intense, Sergeant Major King does not seem the type to shout discrimination easily. The daughter of a North Carolina sharecropper, with 31 years in uniform, she thrived like few other women in the Army, earning top scores in fitness tests ...