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sharecropper

[shair-krop-er] / ˈʃɛərˌkrɒp ər /


NOUN
tenant farmer
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“My grandmother was a sharecropper in Arkansas, and I know that this is the same thing,” a man shouts at one point as whistles shrill and a handheld siren wails.

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2026

Mr. Morrison’s, meanwhile, is on the porch of a Mississippi Delta sharecropper.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

Hamer, a former sharecropper and a leader of the racially integrated Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, objected to the seating of an all-white Mississippi delegation at the 1964 Democratic National Convention.

From Salon • Aug. 24, 2024

Delia Pettway Thibodeaux is a third-generation Gee’s Bend quilter whose grandmother was a sharecropper and whose bold, rhythmic quilts are now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s permanent collection.

From Seattle Times • May 10, 2024

Like the year before, we had spent the summer months picking strawberries for Ito, the Japanese sharecropper.

From "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" by Francisco Jiménez




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