sharecropper

Example Sentences

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“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

Mr. Morrison’s, meanwhile, is on the porch of a Mississippi Delta sharecropper.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

Miles Caton, actor: The first time I got the script, they prompted it as a 19-year-old sharecropper who’s a musician, and he would have been Sam Cooke if it was 20 years later.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2025

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

It was the cabin of Jim Trueblood, a sharecropper who had brought disgrace upon the black community.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison