“Like the sharecropper, she persevered in her work against all odds of success.”

“He was born a poor black sharecropper's son in Macon County, Alabama, and was a sharecropper himself.”

“With no formal education, he busied himself as a sharecropper and day-labourer, working on railways and in mines until the Depression hit.”

“And life was almost as bleak for white tenant farmers and sharecroppers as it was for slaves, who often worked alongside them in the fields.”

“There are also 4.8 million landless families who survive as tenant farmers, sharecroppers, and casual laborers.”

“His mission was to capture the poverty-stricken lives of rural sharecroppers.”