American artist Elizabeth Caldwell Talford Scott (b.1916-d.2011) was #BOTD in South Carolina "on the land her parents worked as sharecroppers, and where previously her grandparents were held as enslaved people." elizabethtalfordscott.com/about/ She is the mother of artist Joyce J. Scott .
Elizabeth Talford Scott
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February 8, 2026 at 8:02 PM
American artist Elizabeth Caldwell Talford Scott (b.1916-d.2011) was #BOTD in South Carolina "on the land her parents worked as sharecroppers, and where previously her grandparents were held as enslaved people." elizabethtalfordscott.com/about/ She is the mother of artist Joyce J. Scott .
My 3x great grandmother who lived till 113 (1881-1994).
February 8, 2026 at 7:31 PM
My 3x great grandmother who lived till 113 (1881-1994).
February 7, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Angola, slave plantation to convict-leasing and sharecroppers, then became a prison - targeting the same populations to keep captive and exploited.
February 7, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Angola, slave plantation to convict-leasing and sharecroppers, then became a prison - targeting the same populations to keep captive and exploited.
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share a bit about the legend who showed the world what true American excellence looks like.
Did you know?
▪️Roots: The son of sharecroppers and the grandson of enslaved people, Owens was picking 100 pounds of cotton a day by age seven to help his family survive in Alabama.
▪️1935: He set four
share a bit about the legend who showed the world what true American excellence looks like.
Did you know?
▪️Roots: The son of sharecroppers and the grandson of enslaved people, Owens was picking 100 pounds of cotton a day by age seven to help his family survive in Alabama.
▪️1935: He set four
February 7, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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share a bit about the legend who showed the world what true American excellence looks like.
Did you know?
▪️Roots: The son of sharecroppers and the grandson of enslaved people, Owens was picking 100 pounds of cotton a day by age seven to help his family survive in Alabama.
▪️1935: He set four
share a bit about the legend who showed the world what true American excellence looks like.
Did you know?
▪️Roots: The son of sharecroppers and the grandson of enslaved people, Owens was picking 100 pounds of cotton a day by age seven to help his family survive in Alabama.
▪️1935: He set four
South USA demeanor goes well back before black slavery. The company families kept workers employed for subsistence pay. Convinced them they had it good. Slavery took some jobs so sharecroppers no longer needed. Stranglehold on labor until better pricing and history caught up.
February 6, 2026 at 8:21 PM
South USA demeanor goes well back before black slavery. The company families kept workers employed for subsistence pay. Convinced them they had it good. Slavery took some jobs so sharecroppers no longer needed. Stranglehold on labor until better pricing and history caught up.
Her parents were sharecroppers and her work changed the world.
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Her parents were sharecroppers and her work changed the world.
"Sinners" set out to portray the Mississippi Band of Choctaw community as authentically as possible. The movie features rarely seen but historically accurate representations of people living in the delta, from Chinese merchants to sharecroppers and Choctaw people. ictnews.org/arts-enterta...
Mississippi Choctaw played an instrumental role in ‘Sinners’ Oscar nomination - ICT
2025 blockbuster ‘Sinners’ featured authentic Choctaw representation and input
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February 6, 2026 at 12:45 AM
"Sinners" set out to portray the Mississippi Band of Choctaw community as authentically as possible. The movie features rarely seen but historically accurate representations of people living in the delta, from Chinese merchants to sharecroppers and Choctaw people. ictnews.org/arts-enterta...
This was true. Complaints were written to the White House all the time as well that White Southerners were shortchanging black sharecroppers all the time when things will come down there that would get taken off the truck and they would never see the people they were supposed to help.
February 5, 2026 at 8:51 PM
This was true. Complaints were written to the White House all the time as well that White Southerners were shortchanging black sharecroppers all the time when things will come down there that would get taken off the truck and they would never see the people they were supposed to help.
The $50K bonus is paid out over 5 years. They have to pay taxes on it. They have to buy their equipment. They have to pay back the full amount they got if they get fired or quit. They are sharecroppers.
February 5, 2026 at 4:27 PM
The $50K bonus is paid out over 5 years. They have to pay taxes on it. They have to buy their equipment. They have to pay back the full amount they got if they get fired or quit. They are sharecroppers.
Born in 1934 in Griffin, GA to sharecroppers, Dr. Dorothy Beck Nash rose through faith, education, and resilience to become a trailblazer, therapist, author, and community leader. Her legacy is courage, conviction, and service.
#DrDorothyNash #BlackHistoryMonth #LocalBlackHistory
#DrDorothyNash #BlackHistoryMonth #LocalBlackHistory
February 5, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Born in 1934 in Griffin, GA to sharecroppers, Dr. Dorothy Beck Nash rose through faith, education, and resilience to become a trailblazer, therapist, author, and community leader. Her legacy is courage, conviction, and service.
#DrDorothyNash #BlackHistoryMonth #LocalBlackHistory
#DrDorothyNash #BlackHistoryMonth #LocalBlackHistory
And the corporation turns remaining farmers into sharecroppers ie legal slavery and they have to buy their supplies seed and chemicals from the proverbial COMPANY STORE
a man from schitts creek is making a funny face and the word yup is above him
ALT: a man from schitts creek is making a funny face and the word yup is above him
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February 4, 2026 at 8:05 PM
And the corporation turns remaining farmers into sharecroppers ie legal slavery and they have to buy their supplies seed and chemicals from the proverbial COMPANY STORE
The proposed homes appear quite spacious and desirable:
February 4, 2026 at 8:05 PM
The proposed homes appear quite spacious and desirable:
Happy born-day Langston Hughes - the poet, novelist, and playwright who played a central role in the Harlem Renaissance. In honor of his legacy we are uplifting a particularly relevant passage from his work Good Morning, Revolution: Uncollected Social Protest
#BlackHistoryMonth
#LangstonHughes
#BlackHistoryMonth
#LangstonHughes
February 4, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Happy born-day Langston Hughes - the poet, novelist, and playwright who played a central role in the Harlem Renaissance. In honor of his legacy we are uplifting a particularly relevant passage from his work Good Morning, Revolution: Uncollected Social Protest
#BlackHistoryMonth
#LangstonHughes
#BlackHistoryMonth
#LangstonHughes
The company store has us and we need to fight them or we will end up as "sharecroppers", a form enslavement that benefits the 1%, who own the company store: www.history.com/articles/sha....
Sharecropping: Definition and Dates | HISTORY
Sharecropping is a system of farming in which families, both Black and white, rent small plots of land from a landown...
www.history.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:16 PM
The company store has us and we need to fight them or we will end up as "sharecroppers", a form enslavement that benefits the 1%, who own the company store: www.history.com/articles/sha....
This is just my experience. But I’m the grandson of sharecroppers and agriculture was the only industry where I grew up.
Farm owners are mostly 3rd and 4th generation and none of them have ever really worked or are really interested in the actual economy.
They inherited the farm, their houses.
Farm owners are mostly 3rd and 4th generation and none of them have ever really worked or are really interested in the actual economy.
They inherited the farm, their houses.
February 4, 2026 at 2:00 PM
This is just my experience. But I’m the grandson of sharecroppers and agriculture was the only industry where I grew up.
Farm owners are mostly 3rd and 4th generation and none of them have ever really worked or are really interested in the actual economy.
They inherited the farm, their houses.
Farm owners are mostly 3rd and 4th generation and none of them have ever really worked or are really interested in the actual economy.
They inherited the farm, their houses.
Listening to the tapes that became the backbone of Hammer and Hoe—within the Signal Hill podcast episode Pie Down Here—and hearing the revelatory Lemon Johnson is earth fucking shattering.
Look for the *oral histories* of people in movements for which written records would have been dangerous.
Look for the *oral histories* of people in movements for which written records would have been dangerous.
February 4, 2026 at 5:03 AM
Listening to the tapes that became the backbone of Hammer and Hoe—within the Signal Hill podcast episode Pie Down Here—and hearing the revelatory Lemon Johnson is earth fucking shattering.
Look for the *oral histories* of people in movements for which written records would have been dangerous.
Look for the *oral histories* of people in movements for which written records would have been dangerous.
Absolutely: peanuts were a cover crop to recondition soil for sharecroppers who had diminishing yields, facing impoverishment. But there was no market for peanuts, leaving poor farmers facing ruin—so Carver proved it could be viable and helped turn things around.
February 3, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Absolutely: peanuts were a cover crop to recondition soil for sharecroppers who had diminishing yields, facing impoverishment. But there was no market for peanuts, leaving poor farmers facing ruin—so Carver proved it could be viable and helped turn things around.
Who is Joe Frazier?
Early Life: From Beaufort to the Big Time Joseph William Frazier was born on January 12, 1944, in Beaufort, South Carolina, the youngest of a large family in an era marked by economic hardship and institutionalized racism. His parents worked as sharecroppers, eking out a living…
Early Life: From Beaufort to the Big Time Joseph William Frazier was born on January 12, 1944, in Beaufort, South Carolina, the youngest of a large family in an era marked by economic hardship and institutionalized racism. His parents worked as sharecroppers, eking out a living…
Who is Joe Frazier?
Early Life: From Beaufort to the Big Time Joseph William Frazier was born on January 12, 1944, in Beaufort, South Carolina, the youngest of a large family in an era marked by economic hardship and institutionalized racism. His parents worked as sharecroppers, eking out a living from the land in a system that offered few opportunities for social mobility. Growing up in this environment instilled in Frazier a tenacity and toughness that would later define his boxing career.
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February 3, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Who is Joe Frazier?
Early Life: From Beaufort to the Big Time Joseph William Frazier was born on January 12, 1944, in Beaufort, South Carolina, the youngest of a large family in an era marked by economic hardship and institutionalized racism. His parents worked as sharecroppers, eking out a living…
Early Life: From Beaufort to the Big Time Joseph William Frazier was born on January 12, 1944, in Beaufort, South Carolina, the youngest of a large family in an era marked by economic hardship and institutionalized racism. His parents worked as sharecroppers, eking out a living…
Exactly- Silicon Valley would be happy to help Fintech repackage Sharecroppers like they did layaway
February 3, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Exactly- Silicon Valley would be happy to help Fintech repackage Sharecroppers like they did layaway
And if you're still too scared? There's good news:
You don't have to be as brave as the soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy or Iwo Jima.
You don't have to be as brave as the semi literate sharecroppers who broke the back of Jim Crow. /13
You don't have to be as brave as the soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy or Iwo Jima.
You don't have to be as brave as the semi literate sharecroppers who broke the back of Jim Crow. /13
February 3, 2026 at 1:27 PM
And if you're still too scared? There's good news:
You don't have to be as brave as the soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy or Iwo Jima.
You don't have to be as brave as the semi literate sharecroppers who broke the back of Jim Crow. /13
You don't have to be as brave as the soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy or Iwo Jima.
You don't have to be as brave as the semi literate sharecroppers who broke the back of Jim Crow. /13
If they can cut us off from our pipeline at the whims of C-Suite or the Investor class, we are no longer creatives, we're Sharecroppers.
A cool thing about FOSS is that I'm still using a version of Blender from 2009 because why not? I can, it's what I know and it does everything I need.
Anyway, let's see how things are going over at Adobe,
Anyway, let's see how things are going over at Adobe,
February 3, 2026 at 1:31 AM
If they can cut us off from our pipeline at the whims of C-Suite or the Investor class, we are no longer creatives, we're Sharecroppers.
"Wooden nickels" refers to the use of scrip or tokens instead of actual money to pay workers in the exploitative Jim Crow South This system kept sharecroppers trapped in debt as they could only be used at inflated price company or plantation stores creating a cycle of dependency impossible to escape
February 2, 2026 at 10:53 PM
"Wooden nickels" refers to the use of scrip or tokens instead of actual money to pay workers in the exploitative Jim Crow South This system kept sharecroppers trapped in debt as they could only be used at inflated price company or plantation stores creating a cycle of dependency impossible to escape
People who say this usually have a
Farm or ranch or house taken from
Blacks who were killed,natives who were run or white sharecroppers who could not pay the mor t tgage.
Farm or ranch or house taken from
Blacks who were killed,natives who were run or white sharecroppers who could not pay the mor t tgage.
February 2, 2026 at 10:50 PM
People who say this usually have a
Farm or ranch or house taken from
Blacks who were killed,natives who were run or white sharecroppers who could not pay the mor t tgage.
Farm or ranch or house taken from
Blacks who were killed,natives who were run or white sharecroppers who could not pay the mor t tgage.