Christmas

BLACK FARMERS..."A TIME AND CLASS OF AMERICAN PEOPLE"

Black labor on Southern plantations formed the backbone of the nation's first economy, an agricultural economy. In the 1920's, there were 1 million BLACK FARMERS. Today there are fewer than 18,000 Black Farmers who still work their acres like Brave Warriors in a battle with economics and racism that they refuse to lose. These HEROES remain...their courage, perseverance, strength, power, imagination, endurance...is now down to a precious few.

134 Pins

The Negro Farmer (1938)

The Negro Farmer (1938). Redoshi’s life that were found in Hurston’s unpublished writings and an interview she gave to The Montgomery Advertiser as well as in “Bridge Across Jordan,” a memoir by the civil rights leader Amelia Boynton Robinson. Redoshi was also filmed for an instructional film released in 1938 by the Department of Agriculture called “The Negro Farmer: Extension Work for Better Farming and Better Living,” possibly making her the only female Clotilda survivor who appeared on film.

an old black and white photo of two people sitting on a couch

Detroit Aesthetic

Gordon Parks Photography

Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thornton, Sr.: He is 82, the son of a slave, a sharecropper and independent farmer. Part of Background of Segregation series. (Photo by Gordon Parks/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)

an old black and white photo of three children in a field with buckets full of food

10th Mountain Division

Easter Service

Military Cemetery

Field Of Dreams

Working With Children

Field of Dreams | Our State

In 1938, Tillery children learned firsthand that farm life wasn’t easy. Many took the lessons learned in the field, at their mother’s knee, on to higher education. photograph by Library of Congress

an old black and white photo of a man driving a horse drawn plow

Beaufort South Carolina

Digital Collections

“Young men and boys with ox cart, Beaufort, South Carolina, 1904,” Dimock, Julian A. (Julian Anthony), 1873-1945, AMNH Digital Special Collections, accessed February 16, 2015. Image Number: 47947. #SCLowcountry #Gullah #BeaufortSC

an old black and white photo of a man plowing

Gullah Culture

Hilton Head South Carolina

American Museum Of Natural History

Museum Of Natural History

Sea Island

Creative Idea

Digital Collections

“Ploughman, Hilton Head, South Carolina, 1904,” Dimock, Julian A. (Julian Anthony), 1873-1945, AMNH Digital Special Collections, accessed February 16, 2015. Image Number: 47886. #SCLowcountry #Gullah #HHI

two men are plowing the field with horses

Gullah Recipes

Rice Field

American Men

Digital Collections

“African American men with wagon, drilling rice field, South Carolina, 1904,” Dimock, Julian A. (Julian Anthony), 1873-1945, AMNH Digital Special Collections, accessed February 16, 2015. Image Number: 47798. #SCLowcountry #Gullah #RiceCulture

two people riding horses through a corn field

Michael, Row the Boat Ashore - Wikipedia

Working a corn field on St. Helena Island, home of "Michael Row the Boat Ashore."

Tuskegee Experiment

Agricultural Education

The story of the Tuskegee experiment to bring agricultural education to black working farmers, told by the man who ran the program, Thomas Monroe Campbell, the first black agricultural extension agent in the U.S.

two men are standing next to each other in front of palm trees and the man is wearing a hat

Gullah Geechee

Robert Jr

Organic Fruits And Vegetables

Love Deeply

Free Wordpress Themes

My Parents

Live Draw SGP - Live Draw Singapore - Live SGP Pools - Result SGP Hari Ini

Of original Gullah-Geechee descent, Joseph and his wife Helen uphold a family farming tradition. Says Joseph:My family has been farming all of their lives, but my parents, Robert Sr. and Nancy Fields were the ones that instilled the principles of farming in us children while we were growing up. I am a certified welder by trade, but farming is the love of my life. As such, I became a full time farmer in 1973 and became the sole proprietor of Joseph Fields Farms 21 years ago.