Tenant farmer

are two sides to every story especially the tale of Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd. Countless Oklahoma locals during the late 1920s and early 1930s believed that Floyd was a hero due to accounts of him burning bank mortgages thus freeing native farmers of their debt. While he did generous things, his immorality outweighed his kindness, forcing officials and the criminal justice department to see him as “Public Enemy No.1”. Although many would debate whether or not Charles Arthur Floyd…

the Chapter 489 Laws of New York of 1888 which stated, “a current of electricity of sufficient intensity to cause death’ for offences committed after January 1st, 1889.” Twenty-six states adopted the use of the electric chair before 1967, and up until 1967 over four thousand people had been killed using this device. In Indiana, which used the electric chair for every execution between 1913-1994, shows that out of 57 people put to death by the electric chair fifteen of them were African American.…

publisher of his own magazine (Hickey 6). Hickey, like many other agricultural farmers at the time, was jaded on the issue of ever decreasing living conditions for farmers in Texas. Hickey and other socialists of the era believed that intolerance of the poor farmer by the government was “utterly foreign to American spirit as exemplified by the fathers of our country.” (Hickey 6). The poor living conditions of Texas farmers has it’s roots in the “need” for a permanent low-wage class, perpetual…

grandpa were extremely stringy, stubborn, mean and tough. The tenant man is in an extremely difficult condition’s being he has to sell his belongings, which contain numerous valuable memories in order to travel…

A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO CASTE SYSTEM: The Caste system in India, which is believed to be more than two thousand years old, was supposedly formed on the basis of the occupation that one was involved in. The caste system originally meant to divide the people on the basis of their occupation like teaching and preaching (Brahmins), kingship and war (Kshatriya), business (vaishyas) and Servants doing menial jobs (Shudras) etc. but soon it became the means to divide the society into various sections…

The demolition of the Pruitt-Igoe public housing project created an image of poverty stricken American that was to resonate loudly through out time and space. This image is built on the Pruitt-Igoe myth which is based on the believe that lower income residents have a deeply instilled penchant for criminality and neglect which inhibit their abilities to continue the maintenance of their communities and will ultimately led to physical structural deterioration and degradation of the social mores…

Netherlands and changed the name to New York. Back then, colonists made their living in a variety of ways. They traded fur and lumber, they sold slaves, and some worked as merchants and tradesman in the towns of the colony. Most colonists were farmers, who cleared large acres of land by hand to grow crops. Corn was the most popular crop. People and animals could eat it. They also grew wheat, vegetables, and tobacco. Some colonists mined for iron to send to England for manufacturing into…

It is just to say that for many decades, way before we were free the “ flowering” of our nation was not so sunny, being dictated by masters, institutions and politics. The rural life was around the 1770 's through the 1940 's following the urban life which is present day. The slave period was full of experiences, where the experiences of Black people are both similar and different to the rural and urban life. The rural Back belt was in the south, in which Blacks were forced into a molded…

In the beginning, no indigenous governing power existed in the English colonies, so atomistic competition for colonial dominance manifested. James Henretta argues in his essay Wealth, Authority, and Power that the New England, Southern, and Middle colonies all followed the same pattern of people achieving economic wealth, using the wealth to get political power, and then using this power to assert their authority over the people; however, the regions varied on every step of the process. Despite…

facile credit given to anyone, real estate ruptured, and unemployment. Many business were in trouble for example the plywood factories, concreate pipe plant, the hardwood flooring plants, oil companies, wheel factories, cottonseed oil plant, tenant farmers companies, and failure of huge financial establishments like Fannie…