White Gold “Cotton”
The Sharecroppers Stories
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This is a personal experience while living on the Rural Clay, County, which is located on the outskirts of West Point Mississippi. West Point, Mississippi, would be a part of the triangle geographical area where you have Tupelo, Mississippi, Columbus, Mississippi, Aberdeen Mississippi, and Starkville Mississippi. West Point Mississippi is located about two and half hours from Memphis, Tennessee, going south toward West Point, Mississippi. The Rural part of West Point, Mississippi, were a large cotton producing area. Clay County in Mississippi had large plantations on that geographical section. Some of those large Plantation have had as many as a hundred acres as many as thousands of Acres all producing cotton and soybeans. My grandparents lived and worked for the Brand Plantation known as J.T. Brand Plantation. The Brand has had one of the largest Plantation in Clay, County, that produce his own Highway, General Store, and had his own Cotton Gin. The Brand process all of his through his own Cotton Gin process all the surrounding Community Cotton through his Cotton Gin. Mister J.T. Brand was a will organize family producing a great deal of Cotton ,every year and had hundreds of African-American living on his properties ,cultivating and harvesting cotton, for the cotton processing Market. I live on the J.T. Brand Plantation with my grandparents. For 7 years, I live with my Grandparents names were Alice Harris Watkins, and Charles Watkins senior. I work side-by-side with them learning the techniques and cultivating the land and the deweeding (which is chopping) and picking cotton (which is harvesting the cotton) for Market. This modification of the cotton picking machine the combine machine for picking Cotton force many sharecroppers to head north where the opportunities for the industrial. For making autos steel mills and stockyards especially in the Midwest like Chicago .In some situations sharecroppers Specially large plantations were forced their workers to seek other employment in the northern Jurisdictions it was a matter of time That manual labour manual labour will become obsolete after 1965, because of the discoveries in the modification in producing Cotton picking combines machinery in California had already done it was doing 65% or more of the cotton picking and picking Cotton happy came up sleep 15 to 20 years prior to becoming obsolete in so the state of Mississippi annual little labour was perfectly clear to the check request as well as the plantation owners I experience the latter part of that migration I talk about from 1965 The last push that African-Americans made from the south and going to the north To seek the American dream of owning their own house property and getting educated and educating their children to uplift the family and for that in future for the upcoming generation. The White gold book, Will demonstrate the faith in God and have faith which gave them the strength to work long hours just on their spiritual faith White gold book will demonstrate how the communities took pride in working for the James Thomas family known as Mr. JT brand demonstrate the power in Pratt I have been a part of his corporation especially in the area call The Burmuda Muda. White gold book will also have acrylic paintings to portray the sharecropper’s activities and pride in their work in daily activities.
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This is set in the rural part of America in the 1960s. A great deal of African Americans were still in the South, picking cotton, chopping cotton, and working on plantations. Little did we know that in the 1960s, there was an industrial revolution not only in the north with the steel mills, stockyards, constructions, and in others, like domestic jobs in the home, hotels, and for drivers in all aspects of transportation. Every Sunday morning, African Americans would attend church, all day long in most situations because that was a tradition that was taking place in the South during the sharecropping days and slavery days. I found out that a great deal of churches provided financial support and education for the laughs because Americans were sharecroppers. African Americans, with their best Sunday clothes on, headed to the church to thank God for another week. Traditions such as gold traditions were maintained by the shoppers and also African American landholders and owners as well. There was also a great deal of landowners doing shopping. At this time, they did not have as much property as plantation owners. But they were lying on this, and they had so much pride in what they did in their work. These basic and general values for African Americans on Sundays is very powerful. Let us look forward to the next book that will discuss what happened after 1965 once the sharecropper grandson enters the Chicago metropolitan area after being gone for seven years and see his views and understanding of returning back from the rule of Mississippi to the Uptown Chicago. Let’s see what changes in opportunity that will be taken advantage of and the disadvantages that he will experience. This is my view. This is my love for the book White Gold “Cotton” and Sharecroppers Stories. Charles Watkins lll, author of the book
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Charles Watkins the book called White Gold “Cotton” the sharecropping stories the Hobbies consists of writing short stories painting with acrylic paint on heavy cotton canvas and and linen canvas enjoy playing tennis and spending time with my daughters Tamia and Tamera I have a hobby also consist of restoring old cars and listen to good jazz music also enjoy tasting of good wine malt scotch I also enjoy listening to other people experience and Journeys at they are had in life I’m also encouraged by younger people best trying to reach their goals trying to become someone and having a dreams to come true as a teacher one of the main object as I had with student and training them that it will propel them up out of the situation with their Authority in educational for the future I am so blessed to be able to enjoy the simple things of life from a variety of backgrounds with people also enjoy my oldest daughter success at Jackson State University Gallery director that loves promoting art her name is Shonda I have a lovely son as well his name is Charles Watkins to 4th a devoted father and hard worker as well that lives in Jackson Mississippi one grandson by the name of Camry and other one other name of Cody I am so blessed to be able to fulfill my dream and to write this book that I have planned to write so many years that has became a great part of me and that I’m able to share with society and my readers hopefully it will be a motivation for other people to write into paint and to express themselves in the area of creative writing.