sharecropper
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When growing up in the 1910s, blues singer-guitarist Robert Johnson moved from Mississippi to Memphis, Tenn., and then Arkansas, before settling in the Mississippi Delta when his mother married a sharecropper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 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
The son of a sharecropper and great-grandson of a Georgia slave, Thurmond became an attorney and has served for decades in state and local government.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 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
Duncan was born Ruby Lee Phillips on June 7, 1932, near Tallulah, La., where her parents, Ida Bolden and Joseph Phillips, were sharecroppers on a white-owned plantation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
"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
Hawkins’ “uncle” Larry Gossett, a former Metropolitan King County Council member born in Seattle to two sharecroppers, is a founding member of the coalition, and is the reason Hawkins hasn’t missed but maybe one year.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 15, 2024
His parents had been sharecroppers who moved north and became a machinist and a nurse.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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