why did farmers become sharecroppers sharecropping offered a measure of independance
eventually the A/a became sharecroppers
paying less for crops raised by african americans.
NO he was not African-American
No, Sam Houston WAS not African-American.
It means the person is an African-American, as well as a Christian. African-American is usually understood to mean that the person has an African origin, and lives in America.
No, all sharecroppers were not African American
eventually the A/a became sharecroppers
Martin Luther King Jr. could be considered African-American or American because the generations of his family before him were taken from Africa by the Americans, but he was born in America.
It wasn't that they preferred to sharecrop as opposed to a wage, but there were no wages where they were. My great grandparents were sharecroppers because there were no wages where they were. They worked the land for a percentage of the crop. Some were able to work a deal that enabled them to later own the land they worked. This is what my great grandparents did. To earn a wage they would have had to leave where they grew up and my family did not until later generations. They did what they knew how to do, grow crops. That was why they sharecropped. My great grandparents were not African American, but Irish and Native American though. Good luck hearing from others on the subject. Knowledge gained through talking to family about those times.
The paintings that they did influenced later generations. They were all about showing their freedom and having their voices be heard.
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paying less for crops raised by african americans.
we celebrate African-American history month because it is a way to inform the younger generations of what happened in the past, as to not ever repeat itself. there have been so many great African Americans, and to not celebrate for what they did and how hard their people had to fight in the past would be wrong.
R. Baxter Miller is the author of "The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes" (2006) and "Blues, Rhythm, and Revolution: An Encyclopedia of the Music, Culture, and Politics of the Civil Rights Movement" (2009). Miller is a professor of English and African American Studies with a focus on African American literature and culture.
In the play "The Only One Who Forgot" by Dominique Morisseau, the main characters are Regina, a young African American woman, and Betty, an older African American woman. The play explores themes of family, memory, and connection between generations.
L. Douglas Wilder was important as the first African American to be elected as Governor of Virginia and the first African American to be elected as governor of any state in the United States since Reconstruction. He was a trailblazer in breaking down racial barriers in politics and paving the way for future generations of African American leaders.
August Wilson has written: 'The piano lesson' -- subject(s): Drama, African Americans, Nineteen thirties, Brothers and sisters, Sharecroppers, African American families, Land tenure, Heirlooms, Afro-Americans, History 'Ma Rainey's black bottom' -- subject(s): African Americans, Blues musicians, Drama, Musicians, Nineteen twenties, Blues (Music), Racism 'The ground on which I stand' -- subject(s): History, History and criticism, American drama, African Americans in literature, African American theater, Theater and society, African American authors, Intellectual life, African Americans 'The Piano Lesson' 'Fences' -- subject(s): Drama, African Americans, History 'Radio golf' -- subject(s): African American neighborhoods, African Americans, Drama, Nineteen nineties, Real estate development 'Seven guitars' -- subject(s): African Americans, Blues musicians, Drama, History 'Cultivating the Ground on Which We Stand'