sharecropper
noun
share·crop·per
ˈsher-ˌkrä-pər 
: 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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Sponsored by Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, this initiative provided essential healthcare to Black sharecroppers in the Jim Crow South.
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Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 16 Mar. 2025
His attempts to drain the blood of Black sharecroppers suggest a simple racial metaphor for Mississippi’s undead past, but the film pursues a set of deeper complexities, in which the vampires and the righteous path of Christianity offer duelling versions of eternal life.
—Jelani Cobb, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Coogler himself told IndieWire that such a deal was important for this film because of its subject matter as a story of Black sharecroppers developing Black art and culture.
—Brian Welk, IndieWire, 21 Apr. 2025
John Lewis John Lewis, born in 1940 in Troy, Alabama, was a son of sharecroppers who became one of the most courageous and enduring voices of the Civil Rights Movement.
—Sughnen Yongo, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
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Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 16 Mar. 2025
His attempts to drain the blood of Black sharecroppers suggest a simple racial metaphor for Mississippi’s undead past, but the film pursues a set of deeper complexities, in which the vampires and the righteous path of Christianity offer duelling versions of eternal life.
—Jelani Cobb, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Coogler himself told IndieWire that such a deal was important for this film because of its subject matter as a story of Black sharecroppers developing Black art and culture.
—Brian Welk, IndieWire, 21 Apr. 2025
John Lewis John Lewis, born in 1940 in Troy, Alabama, was a son of sharecroppers who became one of the most courageous and enduring voices of the Civil Rights Movement.
—Sughnen Yongo, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
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sharecropper
noun
share·crop·per
ˈshe(ə)r-ˌkräp-ər
ˈsha(ə)r-
: a farmer who works land for the owner in return for a share of the value of the crop
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