sharecropper

Example Sentences

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His parents, sharecroppers from Texas, were part of a wave of migrant farmworkers who came to California after World War II in search of work.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s a story about her great-grandfather, a Georgia sharecropper cheated by a crooked plantation owner out of compensation.

From Los Angeles Times

Her parents were sharecroppers who often traveled to work, leaving Turner and her older sister Ruby Aillene on their own.

From Salon

Teaching life skills and values, Umoja said, has its roots in freedom schools started during the Civil Rights Movement, in response to the inferior “sharecropper’s education” Black Americans were receiving in the South.

From Seattle Times

Johnson grew up in the Mississippi Delta with his mother and stepfather, an illiterate sharecropper.

From New York Times