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| Author | : Shirley Robinson Sprinkles |
| Publisher | : Wheatmark, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 97 |
| Release | : 2024-09-11 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
When Copply Robinson leaves the oppressive Jim Crow South in the 1940s, she finds herself working in the hot fields of Safford, Arizona, picking cotton with other migrants and with her frustrated, philandering husband. Although she forms close friendships with some of the pickers, her life feels thwarted and bleak. But, Copply knows things are not as hopeless as they seem because she has a plan. One morning, while her husband is sleeping off a drunken binge, she packs up her two small children, grabs a wad of twenty dollar bills she has saved, and drives their car west to Tucson. Life there gets better for her; then it gets worse—forcing her to flee once again. Picking in High Cotton is the true story of author Shirley Robinson Sprinkles's mother, whose courageous fight to thrive motivates her to never accept poverty and destructive social norms. She is determined to change her destiny and that of her family at every opportunity. Hers is both a timely and a timeless story. Part one of this book has been adapted to a screenplay titled, High Cotton.
| Author | : Jennifer Thompson-Cannino |
| Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2010-01-05 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1429962151 |
The New York Times best selling true story of an unlikely friendship forged between a woman and the man she incorrectly identified as her rapist and sent to prison for 11 years. Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. She was able to escape, and eventually positively identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker. Ronald insisted that she was mistaken-- but Jennifer's positive identification was the compelling evidence that put him behind bars. After eleven years, Ronald was allowed to take a DNA test that proved his innocence. He was released, after serving more than a decade in prison for a crime he never committed. Two years later, Jennifer and Ronald met face to face-- and forged an unlikely friendship that changed both of their lives. With Picking Cotton, Jennifer and Ronald tell in their own words the harrowing details of their tragedy, and challenge our ideas of memory and judgment while demonstrating the profound nature of human grace and the healing power of forgiveness.
| Author | : Darryl Pinckney |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 323 |
| Release | : 1992-02 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0374169985 |
High Cotton is an extraordinarily rich account of the dreams and inner turmoils of a new generation of the black upper middle class, capturing the essence of a part of American society that has mostly been ignored in literature. The novel's protagonist journeys from his childhood home in the midwest to college, a stint in New York publishing, and Europe, yet the issue of his "blackness" remains at the heart of his being.
| Author | : Daniel Cassidy |
| Publisher | : AK Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Americanisms |
| ISBN | : 9781904859604 |
Cassidy presents a history of the Irish influence on American slang in a colourful romp through the slums, the gangs of New York and the elaborate scams of grifters and con men, their secret language owing much to the Irish Gaelic imported with many thousands of immigrants. With chapters on How the Irish Invented Poker and How the Irish Invented Jazz, Cassidy stakes a claim for the Irishness of American English. Includes a preface by Peter Quinn and an Irish - American Vernacular Dictionary.
| Author | : Gerard Helferich |
| Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2017-10-05 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1496815742 |
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.
| Author | : Donald Holley |
| Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
| Total Pages | : 309 |
| Release | : 2000-07-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1682261069 |
In The Second Great Emancipation, Donald Holley uses statistical and narrative analysis to demonstrate that farm mechanization occurred in the Delta region of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi after the region’s population of farm laborers moved away for new opportunities. Rather than pushing labor off the land, Holley argues, the mechanical cotton picker enabled the continuation of cotton cultivation in the post-plantation era, opening the door for the civil rights movement, while ushering a period of prosperity into the South.
| Author | : Sherley Anne Williams |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 42 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780152996246 |
A young black girl relates the daily events of her family's migrant life in the cotton fields of central California.
| Author | : Francisco Jiménez |
| Publisher | : UNM Press |
| Total Pages | : 152 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780826317971 |
A collection of stories about the life of a migrant family.
| Author | : Jennifer Leigh Youngblood |
| Publisher | : Mapletree Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Alabama |
| ISBN | : 9780972807142 |
Cultured, attractive, and strong-willed, Shelby Collins is mature for a sixteen-year-old. Her family lives in Cartersville, Georgia. Her mother has taken a trip to Alabama to tend Shelbys ailing grandmother. Shelby has been left at home to care for her younger brother and sister and to see to the needs of her father. One night her father, who has come home drunk, tries to molest her. Frightened, she fights him off and flees, but it isnt long before her angry father tracks her down and places her in a reform school in distant Birmingham.While Shelby is able to make a new life for herself in Birmingham, she suffers greatly. But, through her many difficulties, she learns that blessings can come in unexpected ways.This poignant and heart-warming novel addresses several fundamental human longings. Is there an overshadowing influence for good that can help direct our lives? Can we learn to trust again after weve been betrayed? Is there a power that can come into our hearts to help us forgive?
| Author | : Eric F. Hequet |
| Publisher | : Texas Tech University Press |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 9780896725904 |
An essential reference for anyone searching for ways to avoid or mitigate the problem of cotton stickiness.
