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The story of Matilda and her family highlights the horrors of slavery, the abuses of the US South’s sharecropping system, the injustices of segregation and the suffering of black farmers during the Great Depression.
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Fox News, 27 Mar. 2020
The history of this great nation is rife with methods to disenfranchise people of color — from sharecropping to segregation to redlining to predatory lending.
—Otis R. Taylor Jr., SFChronicle.com, 9 Jan. 2020
The union-run facility is spread over 265 acres of previous farmland on Foley Road that was sharecropped by two families many years ago.
—David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 31 Dec. 2019
Born on a sharecropping farm, Mr. Lewis has spent his life fighting for racial integration and civil rights, rising through the ranks of the civil rights movement before taking office.
—Emily Cochrane, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2019
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Fox News, 27 Mar. 2020
The history of this great nation is rife with methods to disenfranchise people of color — from sharecropping to segregation to redlining to predatory lending.
—Otis R. Taylor Jr., SFChronicle.com, 9 Jan. 2020
The union-run facility is spread over 265 acres of previous farmland on Foley Road that was sharecropped by two families many years ago.
—David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 31 Dec. 2019
Born on a sharecropping farm, Mr. Lewis has spent his life fighting for racial integration and civil rights, rising through the ranks of the civil rights movement before taking office.
—Emily Cochrane, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2019
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Other episodes include restoring tree islands, which the Miccosukee have historically relied upon for food (both farming and hunting), homes, and as a refuge when the U.S. government was attempting to drive them out of Florida.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
22 May 2025
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Smith’s father purchased a 50-acre crawfish pond in the 1980s and farmed them to supply local restaurants in Louisiana.—
Tiney Ricciardi,
Denver Post,
19 May 2025
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Do this during the fall so that by spring, your garden bed will be ready to plant without needing to be tilled.—
Rita Pelczar,
Better Homes & Gardens,
28 May 2025
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Pine bark fines can also be tilled into a site before planting to help lower the soil acidity Tom MacCubbin is an urban horticulturist emeritus with the University of Florida Cooperative Extension Service.—
Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
24 May 2025
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