Word: tenanted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farmers, who were charged with overseeing all the farmers within their jurisdiction, with the right to inspect whenever they chose, to prowl through barns and fields, to impose advice, and if dissatisfied, to evict those who failed to meet their standards. This power was not confined to eviction of tenant farmers. It included power to evict farm owners from their own farms...
...vast assortment of plows, combines, trucks, balers, pickers, etc. Eastland's plantation with its equipment is worth more than a million dollars and grosses about half a million a year in sales. Working the 4,500 acres directly under the plantation manager-520 acres are worked by tenant farmers-are 84 sharecroppers (mostly Negro) and, in this season, about 30 Negro day hands. The material welfare of these men and their families-about 400 people-is directly dependent on Eastland. By Delta standards, he does well by them. Showpiece of the Eastland plantation is Preston Jones, Negro manager...
...landlord, Soule nonetheless allowed that his top table priorities are based on his patrons' seniority. Among his best-seated customers: the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Composer Cole Porter, Grandma Marlene Dietrich, Bernard Baruch, J. Edgar Hoover. Where did Landlord Cohn rank in this spectacular array? Said humble Tenant Soule: "He is always welcome. I smiled and joked with him. Why should an important Hollywood person think a little restaurateur wouldn't talk...
...youngest child of a tenant farmer in Shiloh, Autherine Lucy began her fight to get into the university in 1952. Promptly rejected, along with her Negro friend Pollie Ann Myers Hudson, she took her case to a Birmingham Negro lawyer named Arthur Shores. The Supreme Court ordered Federal Judge Harlan Grooms to instruct the university that it could not refuse students on the basis of race. Though Alabama turned down Pollie Ann on the grounds of "her conduct and marital record" (she is involved in a divorce action), it reluctantly notified Autherine, on the very eve of registration day, that...
Died. Will Winton Alexander, 71, onetime Methodist minister, and an authority on race relations, who as administrator (1937-40) of the U.S. Farm Security Administration supervised the rehabilitation of thousands of Southern tenant farmers; of a heart ailment; in Chapel Hill...