The March of Time- Sharecroppers in the Black Belt 1936

[@kg4021]

like how this video does not focus on just one race because both black and white people suffered when employed as a share cropper.

[@LV2308gmail]

But many people don’t know about ur sharecroppers

[@unapologeticgreatgrandma1720]

I remember visiting my grandparents during the 1960's. They were sharecroppers and didn't live in any better conditions than your showing for 1936. Alot of people associate sharecropping with black Americans. That is a total falsehood. Whites and blacks were used by wealthy landowners and lived in poverty. I even remember bartering between all races. My grandma use to tell us about bartering with the Japanese detention camps in the 30's. My dad was born in 1936. He lived this poverty. Then joined the army and moved to Oklahoma where he became a county commissioner. Then went on to be the first recipient of the FBI's Louis Peterson award for fighting government crime against citizens. Not bad for a lowly sharecroppers.

[@DtotheK88]

I think my grandmother was born into a sharecropper family. She was born in 1933 in Hermitage Arkansas. One of about 8 children, all worked on the farm until the boys went off to war or they got old enough to do their own thing. My grandmother said she didn’t have electricity until her senior year in high school. She would talk about a peddler who would come by once in a while, and all the kids ran and got an egg to give him in return they got a piece of bubble gum. My grandmother told me about how upset she was one day when she dropped her egg one time.

[@olddogcitypound5859]

My grandparents and my parents were sharecroppers from Mississippi until they fled north in 1948 for factory jobs in Hellinois.

[@richardglady3009]

Thanks for posting this piece of history.

[@jamesrkennedy7041]

Check out the story about black and white post war poverty in "Punished with Poverty: the suffering South."

[@paulreno7040]

I must admit I haven't checked these comments in quite some time! Thanks for watching guys, first saw this as part of a thesis i wrote on sharecropping unions, uploaded it around the time i handed it in. Fascinating vid.

[@1020donny]

Thanks for posting Paul.

[@tommcdevitt9894]

I am reading "Mean Things Happening in the Land", a memoir of Harry Leland Mitchell, one of the founders of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union mentioned in the newsreel. He provided a transcript of this film and I was thrilled I was able to see it. For those interested in learning more about the first integrated union in the south, I strongly recommend the book. Mitchell was indeed a socialist as neither if the major parties had the moral and political courage to stand up for the rights of poor whit sharecroppers. Thank You

[@paulreno7040]

Always meant to read that book, thanks for the recommendation

[@dawndulaney]

My Great Uncle was Boss Dulaney. One of the planters who participated and led those horrifying and shameful acts of violence against Williams and Blagden and more. I was so excited to learn about my family history.! So sure was I, that I would find someone in my tree of historical significance! I was stunned and sickened to find that my Grandpas brother was someone so vile.

[@dillon5741]

My grandmother grew up in a sharecropper family.

[@carolynscott9007]

I came here to learn more about my great-grandparents history. 1910-1930's in Athens AL.

[@bradleysmith3284]

Just think about it..when they abolished slavery ,the farmers children had to fill the shoes of the slaves.

[@UnfilteredAmerica]

Ohh poor them. They have to work hard for once

[@bonitamartin4954]

A former coworker insisted that there were no white sharecroppers. I suppose she thought whites have never really been poor. I brought a photo of my mother's family in clean, patched clothes. The children had white hair from malnutrition and were nearly skin and bone, as were their parents. Then I told her what had to be done to each shack when they moved in search of better fare. I love this film!

[@tishsmiddy71]

My Grandfather was Henry Frances Smiddy Sir. He help the Lawyer Mr. O. Jones in Elaina, Arkansas freeing the 12 men that was going to be Hung from the killing of a White Man on September 29,1919 !!! I want know if you can help ??? where is he Buried ???

[@RealAdrianReactions]

My great great grandmother ran away with the slave owner son to Germany been there since ( my Family)

[@justglowing7379]

So interesting

[@triumphbobberbiker]

In those times obesity was far from a social problem

[@ElizabethCox-z9o]

True my great grandma was lucky to get to learn how to read. My Great Grandmas sister got two years and my Great Grandma got one. That's how they taught each others how to read. They were incredibly poor. I think all of them only had a 1 to 2 years of education.

[@dennisfaulkner5470]

Nope..not Memphis.. started in Tyronza, Arkansas.. Family was square in the middle of it.. But, the landowners paid dear the next spring...in 37 was the last Great Mississippi River floods.. Mom said" Looked like a sea from Memphis to Crowley's Ridge.. 😮😢

[@jacobeksor6088]

Montagnard indigenous persecution,genocide by Vietnamese government today , we lost our ancestors land , have no freedom, thousands of Montagnard indigenous live in poverty Vietnamese government is blind.

[@nurlatifahmohdnor8939]

Crop dusters. About flight.

[@idontcare1762]

If you don't think you're being paid a fair wage then load up and go work somewhere else.

[@rogercook8277]

Back then that might would have been alright for whites to do, but for black people it wasn't that easy to do. Our skin color kept us down.Back in those days, no matter where black people decided to settle down, we were still treated as 2nd and 3rd class citizens. But God be the Glory, we still survived . Amen Amen and Amen.

[@wegder]

Most were held in debt bondage, they couldn't leave

[@everythingerina9379]

have you heard of debt bondage or defacto segregation in the north probably wouldn't have judging by your name

[@UnfilteredAmerica]

Debt bondage. They weren’t allowed to leave. Smh