Alonzo Vickers was born on May 3, 1892, in Lawrenceville, Alabama, and passed away in late April of 1980. His parents were slaves and he was born a sharecropper. He would go on to get married, have children, and own his own farm.
The Economic Status of Negroes
Johnson, Charles S. The Economic Status of Negroes. Fisk University, 1933.
In 1933, the Conference on the Economic Status of the Negro was held on May 11-13 in Washington, D. C. Charles S. Johnson did a wonderful job taking note of all that was said. He did so well that his work, The Economic Status of Negroes, was published by Fisk University—an HBCU, or historic black college
The Southern Negro Farmer
“John Hurston, in his late twenties, had left Macon County, Alabama, because the ordeal of share-cropping on a southern Alabama cotton plantation was crushing to his ambition. There was no rise to the thing.”
(Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road)
Zora Neale Hurston is most known for being an influential author of African American literature, with her most iconic work being Their Eyes Were Watching God. However, she was also an anthropologist and ventured
Looking for Alonzo
When I found out I was going to be spending an entire semester working towards a project involving Ancestry.com, initially, I was elated. I always wanted to know more about my ancestors, what they were like, where they lived, what they did for fun, and what kind of clothes they wore. I told my