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Alice Marie Johnson

Women and Crime

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The Importance of Sharecropping

Alice's family was able to leave this impoverished lifestyle when her father got a job as a welder and her mother began cooking at a local country club. With these new opportunities, they were able to move their large family into a home with more space, plumbing, and running water. Alice was doing well in school and she even was playing an instrument in the band. When she started dating a 16 year old boy named Charles, she found out that she was pregnant only a few months later. She told her parents about the pregnancy but without her knowledge, they started planning her wedding to Charles. To them, there was simply no other option but to marry the father of her child.

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