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
Civil rights activist and former sharecropper Fannie Lou Hamer was weary when she spoke alongside Malcolm X at a church in Harlem in December 1964.
From Salon ● May 28, 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
Jackie Robinson is the grandson of a slave, the son of a sharecropper, raised in poverty by a lone mother who took in ironing and washing.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
A soft-spoken young man, Jesse Owens was the son of black Alabama sharecroppers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Wilson, the son of North Carolina sharecroppers, became one of the first Black reporters on air in Los Angeles in 1969.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2024
"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
His parents, Lemius and Eunice Sonnier, were sharecroppers, and young Joel and his older brother, P.J., picked cotton alongside them from an early age.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
On the night of September 30, 1919, some one hundred African American sharecroppers attended a meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America at a black church three miles north of Elaine, Arkansas.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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