Plans to honor the sharecroppers buried there include a memorial archway at the new site. The graves for hundreds of Black tenant farmers on a Virginia tobacco plantation will soon be moved to a ...

While generally supportive of the project to move the graves, Hairston worries about the indignity of exhuming the graves of people who were brutalized as slaves and exploited as sharecroppers.

In late September 1919 black sharecroppers held a meeting at a church in Hoop Spur to discuss how to get better prices for their cotton. The emancipation of slaves had destroyed the plantations ...

One of the sharecroppers was Fleming Adams Sr ... by Jeff Bennett shows land that is being cleared near graves of Black tenant farmers, Dec. 10, 2024, on the former Oak Hill plantation outside ...

T.A. Bryant Sr., a key figure in the community, was one of the first Black men to own property in DeKalb County and helped ...

Black sharecroppers and tenant farmers were plotting an insurrection. According to whispers, Black sharecroppers were planning to murder the “best citizens” of the small Delta town and ...

Sharecroppers would get tools ... In Chicago, which had a direct train route from Mississippi, the black-owned newspaper The Chicago Defender urged blacks to migrate, and lobbied railroads ...