Part one of term paper
A movie that tells the history of African Americans moving from Southern cities to the North and West. It is mostly told by several older Chicagoans born in the Mississippi Delta. It explains the struggle and success of the travel for African Americans to have a better life. In the late 19th century, early 20th century, segregation was be ...

Part two of term paper
... became sharecroppers. Money was loaned to them, from the landlords, for seeds, tools, food, and other necessary items. After the season was over, they would get their share of earnings. Many sharecroppers discovered that they owed the landlord money. They would falling deeper into debt, and they had to pledge the next year’s crop as payment. Sharecropping soon became a thing of the past. Mechanical cotton pickers were invented, which worried sharecroppers. These machines could greatly do ...