: a tenant farmer especially in the southern U.S. who is provided with credit for seed, tools, living quarters, and food, who works the land, and who receives an agreed share of the value of the crop minus charges
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Gorence, who had just turned 24, covered Alabama politics, protests and marches and interviewed sharecropper families to tell their stories.
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Born to sharecroppers in South Carolina in 1909, McLaurin lived in a time when racial segregation was still legal and women did not have the right to vote.
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Affirmative action opened previously closed doors in education and employment, turning sharecroppers who’d pulled cotton in the dry hot fields of Texas into shareholder of Texas Instruments.
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My grandfather on my paternal side, Richard Frazier, was born in the late 1850s, and therefore was born into slavery, but was a sharecropper in South Carolina for his entire life.
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The brazen lynching of the four sharecroppers horrified the country that year.
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After earning his law degree, this sharecropper’s son from Alabama’s segregationist past grew wealthy early on after forming a mail-order publishing firm.
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Peonage had followed slavery in sharecropper society.
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Documentary about Recy Taylor who was mentioned by Oprah Winfrey in her Golden Globes speech about an Alabama sharecropper who was raped in 1944.
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First Known Use of sharecropper
1923
SHARECROPPER Defined for English Language Learners
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: a farmer especially in the southern U.S. who raises crops for the owner of a piece of land and is paid a portion of the money from the sale of the crops
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