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Alice Walker
As the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Alice Walker helped to bring the Black experience to readers across the globe. A true trailblazer, her work continues to entertain and enlighten.
The March of Time
People working fields
MOT 1936: COTTON: VS People sharecroppers tenant farmers laborers working in field Caucasian (5.5 million) & African-American (3 million). VS INT & EXT Poverty homes. Landlords landlord talking w/ tenant farmer. Poor Caucasian children...
A&E Television
History.com: Sharecropping
Discusses the sharecropping system that emerged during Reconstruction after the Civil War. With sharecropping, black families would rent small plots of land in return for a portion of their crop, to be given to the landowner at the end...