Sharecroppers

Born Anna Mae Bullock on Nov. 26, 1939, in Nutbush, Tennessee, Turner and her older sister were separated at a young age from their parents, who worked as sharecroppers.

Profit margins for opium farmers and sharecroppers are modest—perhaps a few hundred dollars per hectare in a normal year—but as our Talib soldier-escort explained, this far outstrips profits from crops such as wheat.

The area’s oldest surviving juke joint is run by musician Jimmy “Duck” Holmes, whose parents opened the place in 1948 to feed sharecroppers.

But it’s based a song about sharecroppers, ‘Penny’s Farm,’ from the 1920s, which Pete Seeger had recorded in 1950!

Born Feb. 21, 1940, near Troy, Ala., Lewis grew up the son of sharecroppers with several siblings.

Born to impoverished Alabama sharecroppers, Lewis was a high school student in 1955 when he heard broadcasts by the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr that drew him to activism.

White grew up in North Carolina as the daughter of sharecroppers, but “we didn’t know what Juneteenth was,” she says.

Because he is the son of former sharecroppers.

But there was powerful opposition from the planter class, who held most of African-Americans as deeply indebted sharecroppers, tenants and domestic workers.

Cummings was the son of South Carolina sharecroppers, not many decades removed from slavery, who came north in 1940 as part of the Great Migration.

Alternatively, growers who manage farmland for an absentee landowner, sharing the harvest (or its profits) are known as sharecroppers or sharefarmers.

Henry J. Kaiser 's representatives recruited sharecroppers and tenant farmers from rural areas to work in his shipyards.

He was the youngest of seven citation (or possibly eight) children born to sharecroppers Alex and Clarissa Jefferson.

Southern Homestead Act of 1866 main Enacted to allow poor tenant farmers and sharecroppers in the south become land owners in the southern United States during Reconstruction.

The boll weevil infestation and agricultural problems had cost sharecroppers and farmers their jobs.