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• n  small farmers and tenants

• A sharecropper's son, he often charges that it is a tool of Wall Street bankers.
• He was a hardworking, illiterate sharecropper who had cleared all of $43 the year before, and this year's prospects didn't even look as good as that.
• Although most observers said his selection was unlikely, Mayor Bradley, the son of a sharecropper, touched reporters by reminding them how remarkable it was that a presidential .

• cropper
• sharecrop farmer

News & Articles

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• Commentary: It's not so simple in Detroit
  There's a scene in the movie version of "The Grapes of Wrath" that's stuck in my head. It's where a guy in a suit drives out to tell Muley the sharecropper that he and his family have to get off the land they've been farming for three generations.
  July 24, 2013 - Savannah Morning News
• Commentary: There are no easy answers for Detroit
  There’s a scene in the movie version of The Grapes of Wrath that’s stuck in my head. It’s where a guy in a suit drives out to tell Muley the sharecropper that he and his family have to get off the land they’ve been farming for three generations.
  July 24, 2013 - Santa Fe New Mexican

Quotes

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• Jackie Robinson in Salt Lake Tribune
  There I was the black grandson of a slave, the son of a black sharecropper, part of a historic occasion, a symbolic hero to my people,wrote Jackie Robinson, prior to his death, looking back at the opening of the 1947 World Series in Yankee...
• Joe Louis in Swissinfo
  Back in those days you could only get work in a cotton field or as a sharecropper,said Joe Louis Reliford, who grew up in Waycross, south Georgia, and first saw Brown perform in the late 1950s.
• Kara Walker in Houston Chronicle
  For that matter, Walker told the New York Times in 1997 that sometimes she felt "like the old sharecropper in (Ralph) Ellison's Invisible Man, who raped his wife and daughter and kept telling his horrible story over and over, and the white people in...