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sharecropper

[shair-krop-er] / ˈʃɛərˌkrɒp ər /


NOUN
tenant farmer
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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

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

Delia Pettway Thibodeaux is a third-generation Gee’s Bend quilter whose grandmother was a sharecropper and whose bold, rhythmic quilts are now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s permanent collection.

From Seattle Times • May 10, 2024

Papá showed them his green card, which Ito, the Japanese sharecropper for whom we picked strawberries, had helped him get years before.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez




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