sharecropper
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She was born in the hills of Tennessee, the fourth of 12 children of a sharecropper and his wife who lived in a shack without electricity or running water.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Her father, a tobacco sharecropper, couldn’t read or write, and the family lived in a one-room cabin with no electricity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
“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
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
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
A soft-spoken young man, Jesse Owens was the son of black Alabama sharecroppers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
My parents were sharecroppers in Arkansas until 1951, when my dad dared stand up to his boss for not paying him a fair wage at the agricultural weigh station.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025
"I come from a proud line of sharecroppers and cowboys. My grandfather was buried in his cowboy boots," she shares.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2024
Lewis was born in 1940 as one of 10 children of Alabama sharecroppers and rose to become an icon of the Civil Rights Movement and a lion of the U.S.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2024
When he did not see any change, he checked with other sharecroppers: their plants were dying too.
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
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