sharecropper

She was the fourth of her sharecropper parents’ 12 children.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 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

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

He decided to continue working for Ito six days a week, except Sundays, and to be a sharecropper.

From "Breaking Through" 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

"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

When the National Labor Relations Act was passed in 1935, Black sharecroppers were doing most of the agricultural work in the South, and Asian and Latino workers were working in the West.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2023

There are no records of Fannie’s life, but she was most likely born a slave on the Lacks property, and like most Lacks slaves who stayed on the plantation as sharecroppers, she never left.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot