African American Sharecropping System

Analyze the workings of the sharecropping system and explain why many African
Americans preferred it to wage labor. Explain why so many sharecroppers ended up destitute and tied to a farm or plantation.
The sharecropping system arose in order to provide whites with a means to have control over land and credit and to provide a basis to limit the mobility of the African American tenants. Additionally, the sharecropping system evolved due to the failure of the contract labor system and the land reforms that were originally established following the Civil War. The Freedman Bureaus established the contract labor system with the goal of being the mediator and negotiator between white landowners and former slaves. Unfortunately, the Freedmen’s Bureau

Due to the fact that African Americans were already last when it came to resources and government programs it was not a surprise that they were the first to be laid off and they that their unemployment rate was two to three times that of whites. In regards to the Great Depression, the poor conditions that blacks had to suffer played a huge rule in a large number of African Americans voting for members of the Democratic Party. At the time of the Great Depression very little support came from the Republican administrators. This led to the election of Franklin D Roosevelt. Initially this did little for African Americans. However public assistance programs were established to help out the country, as a whole. Unfortunately, African Americans often received substantially less aid than whites, and some charitable organizations even excluded blacks from their soup

and other leaders of the civil rights movement in the context of the Cold War and resurgent Southern segregationism.
Evaluate how successful it was as a strategy in the many struggles that occurred between 1956 and 1966.The American Civil Rights Movement in the late 1950s and 1960s represents a pivotal event in world history. The positive changes it brought to voting and civil rights continue to be felt throughout the United States and much of the world. Although this struggle for black equality was fought on hundreds of different “battlefields” throughout the United States, many observers at the time described the state of Mississippi as the most racist and violent.
Mississippi's lawmakers, law enforcement officers, public officials, and private citizens worked long and hard to maintain the segregated way of life that had dominated the state since the end of the Civil War in 1865. The method that ensured segregation persisted was the use and threat of violence against people who sought to end