Everhart, Donna
Summary: 1950s, North Carolina. Martha 'Sonny' Creech, her two brothers, and her parents work hard on their cotton farm, but only Sonny loves the rich, dark earth the way her father does. When a tragic accident claims his life, her stricken family struggles to fend off ruin. When Frank Fowler, their rich, reclusive neighbor, offers to help finance that year's cotton crop, Sonny is sure the man has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC EVEAgee, James
Summary: Provides an unsparing record of three families surviving under the harsh conditions of Depression-era poverty in 1936 rural Alabama.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.1062 AGESummary: Infused with spirituals, folk songs, blues, and jazz, Hallelujah follows the fortunes of Zeke, a poor cotton farmer. Love, loss, passion, redemption, make this cinematic milestone the first all-black feature from a major studio.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS HALSummary: 10-year-old Luke lives with his parents and grandparents in Arkansas during the Korean War. To pick the cotton in their fields, they must hire "hill people" and Mexicans. Hank is a "hill person" who doesn't take kindly to people looking down on him. Luke witnesses a fight that Hank gets into that causes the death of another person. With better times ahead to look forward to, the town gets...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Hall of Fame 2003
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAISummary: Once known as India's Cotton Belt, the cotton-growing region of Vidarbha, central India, is now being called the Suicide Belt. Crop failures, sinking global cotton prices, spiraling debt, and a forbidding bureaucracy are driving farmers to unbearable levels of despair. This Wide Angle report captures the tense relations between farmers and illegal money lenders, traveling salesmen hawking...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
View online at AVOD
Summary: For centuries, cotton has influenced the relationship between America and Africa. It drove the slave trade, and today it epitomizes the uneven playing field created by farming subsidies. This program examines the lopsided nature of the global cotton industry-in which U.S. and European producers enjoy massive government support while independent African farmers struggle to remain competitive....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006