Showing posts with label rural. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rural. Show all posts

Saturday, May 4, 2024

Lucille


A Speech Delivered by 
The Daughter of A Tenant Farmer

In Her High School Junior Year, 1927

Her Family Worked the Land Near Millport Alabama
And She Walked Five Miles To and From Liberty High School

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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

The Children Will Go to School Because the School is Warm...

The weatherman predicted freezing temperatures for the region, a swath of land in the impoverished black-belt. My friend teaches in a consolidated school for the region. He said to me, "We will have a full house tomorrow; the school is warm; and the students will get something to eat."

Lucille

A Speech Delivered by  The  Daughter of A Tenant Farmer In Her High School Junior Year,  1927 Her Family Worked the Land Near Millport Alaba...