Death of a Plantation

Sherman Briscoe was the Executive Director of the National Newspaper Publishers Association and a retired Information Specialist of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In this post, he traveled over the South once or twice each year, visiting black farm families over a twenty-seven year period. The author was born into a sharecropper family on a Mississippi cotton plantation in the delta north of Vicksburg. He held a B.A. degree from Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; a M.A. degree; and finished his resident requirements for his PhD from American University in Washington, DC.

Because of his writings, he was an editor for The Chicago Defender; member of the National and Capital Press Clubs; cited in Who's Who Among Black Americans , wherein he was credited for many other achievement awards; and inducted into the National Archive in Washington, DC, along with the late U.S. Representative, Adam Clayton Powell. Sherman Briscoe passed away on October 27, 1979.

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