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
Butler was born to sharecropper parents on Dec. 8, 1939, in Sunflower, Miss., and moved at age 3 with his family to Chicago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2025
Father of two, Alabama native, and son of a sharecropper, Lester Charles Walker was one of American Street’s very first black residents in 1947.
From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi
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
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
He reminds me of the poor white sharecroppers who tilled Mr. Thompson’s land.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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