Melissa Cooper, a History Teacher at Senioritis.io

Melissa Cooper
June 21, 2023
History of the Americas

Understanding the Textile Industry: Production Methods, Raw Materials and Sustainable Practices

textile industry Besides timber, cigarette, and steel, what other notable industry was part of the New South? The textile industry is an industry that deals with the...

Melissa Cooper
June 21, 2023
History of the Americas

Understanding Tenant Farming: A Historical and Contemporary Perspective

tenant farming A system of farming in the southern U.S. where a person pays rent (and pays cash) to farm someone else’s land because they do not...

Melissa Cooper
June 21, 2023
History of the Americas

The Legacy of Sharecropping: A Broken System That Influenced Racial and Economic Inequalities in the Southern United States

sharecropping A system of farming in the southern U.S. where a person is provided with land, credit for seed, tools, living quarters, and food, in exchange for...

Melissa Cooper
June 21, 2023
History of the Americas

Understanding Crop Lien System: A Credit System for Agricultural Financing

crop lien White property owners or merchants used “these” to take ownership of the freedman’s share of the crops to pay off the freedman’s debts for farming...

Melissa Cooper
June 21, 2023
History of the Americas

Debt Peonage: Understanding the Modern-Day Slavery Trap and Solutions for Combating it

debt peonage A sharecropper that could not pay back his debt or loan was forced, by law, to work the landowner’s fields the following year. This was...

Melissa Cooper
June 21, 2023
History of the Americas

Revolutionizing Agriculture: The Legacy of George Washington Carver, Inventor and Scientist

George Washington Carver This person experimented with and promoted growing peanuts and sweet potatoes in southern soil in order to give poorer farmers an alternative to growing...

Melissa Cooper
June 21, 2023
History

Promoting Roma Rights and Inclusion: Understanding the History and Culture of the Romani People

Gypsies A member of a people originating in South Asia and traditionally having an itinerant way of life, living widely dispersed across Europe and North and South...

Melissa Cooper
June 21, 2023
History

Uncovering the Significance and Precedents of the Nuremberg Trials in International Law and Justice

Nuremberg Trials Were held by the Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries and other crimes in...