sharecropper

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

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

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

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

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

I guess they was sharecroppers on the farm.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson