Throughout the early 1900s, the South became known for African Americans like Margaret walker as a "sorrow home". Life was not easy for them. More than two thirds of African Americans were sharecropping farmers who paid the landowners a part of their crops in exchange for rent of their land. Jobs were also scarce and low-paying. Some
factories were simply closed to them and they were often the last ones to be hired and the first ones to be fired. African American women had to work as household help for whites at wages that kept them rapped in poverty. Some fell deeper and deeper in debt to landlords, landowners and store owners. Schools were few and poor so many of their
children were taught at home.
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