sharecropper
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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
She was the fourth of her sharecropper parents’ 12 children.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 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
We sat on the porch in a semicircle in camp chairs, me between the sharecropper and the millionaire.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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
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
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
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