Robert L. Hill
Robert Lee Hill (June 8, 1892 – ?) was an African American sharecropper from eastern Arkansas and founder of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America.
Read more about Robert L. Hill: Early Life, Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America, Elaine Race Riot, National Association For The Advancement of Colored People
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“Mary, hear,
O Mary, marry earth, sea, air and fire;
Our sacred earth in our day is our curse.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
“The hill farmer ... always seems to make out somehow with his corn patch, his few vegetables, his rifle, and fishing rod. This self-contained economy creates in the hillman a comparative disinterest in the world’s affairs, along with a disdain of lowland ways. “I don’t go to question the good Lord in his wisdom,” runs the phrasing attributed to a typical mountaineer, “but I jest cain’t see why He put valleys in between the hills.””
—Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)