Robert Kennedy, Jr.

In 1932, the predecessor organization, the CDC, took 299 black sharecroppers from the South who had syphilis. They offered them free healthcare, hot lunches, and free burial. They said you can only come to us for healthcare. These were men who were sharecroppers, and they had syphilis. They were never told they had syphilis.

American Activist

Alice Walker

When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they'd always known - the plantations - because they attempted to exercise their 'democratic' right to vote.

American Author

A'Lelia Bundles

Madam Walker was a master marketer. But her brilliance was in taking it to another level by training women, by traveling, by making very motivational speeches and by providing independent income for women who otherwise would have to be maids and sharecroppers.

American Journalist

Carrie Mae Weems

I come from a family of Mississippi sharecroppers just a few generations away from slavery, and I experienced a lot of racism growing up - you can't avoid that if you're a person of color in this country.

American Photographer

Kenneth Frazier

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.

American Businessman

Ernest Gaines

The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.

American Writer

Afeni Shakur

Please remember that my great grandmother was a slave. My grandmother was a sharecropper. My mother was a factory worker.

Buck Owens

We were sharecroppers - we were a little bit of everything. We farmed and tried to make something.

American Musician

Cordae

My grandmother was a sharecropper. That wasn't even that long ago! My grandma was a sharecropper.

John Lewis

My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.

American Politician

Understand that 'sharecropper' often refers to a historical period, especially post-slavery in the U.S.

Historical Context

The term 'sharecropper' can imply economic struggle due to unfair sharecropping contracts.

Economic Hardship

In American culture, 'sharecropper' may evoke images of rural life and inequality.

Cultural Significance

 He was trying to help poor Alabama sharecroppers whose cotton yields were declining, and he knew that planting peanuts in their fields would replenish those soils so that their cotton yields would be better a few years later. But he also knew it needed to be lucrative for them in the short run.

The power to think ahead...

 police problem to make Los Angeles a model city for the nation Thomas Bradley was sworn in today as mayor of Los Angeles the largest city in this country ever to have a black mayor Bradley is a former policeman and the son of a Texas sharecropper tonight it's not just a

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 for organizing local sharecroppers." "Oliver Moore was lynched in Edgecomb County, North Carolina, for frightening a white girl." "Nathan Bird was lynched near Luling, Texas, for refusing to turn his son over to a mob." We need to change the action,

How to deconstruct...

 many of whom were not even being paid for their hard work. Many of them were working for the right to live on the land that they were farming. They were sharecroppers and not even being paid. So they were ripe for recruitment. But it turned out

The Great Migration and...

 Charley Williams, a poor sharecropper, wouldn't ordinarily be the subject of a big interview, but Charley had actually been a slave until he was 22 years old. And the stories that were captured of his life make up one of the crown jewels

Jake Barton: The museum...

 Walking through pain is what we have always done. My mom, she's in the middle right there, my mom desegregated her high school in 1955. Her mom walked down the steps of an abandoned school bus where she raised 11 kids as a sharecropper.

The trauma of systematic...

 ownership the respect we should give to the Creator the remixer the owner the property owner the copyright owner of this extraordinarily powerful stuff and not a generation of sharecroppers now I think there are lessons we should learn

Re-examining the remix -...

 So Silas, at the end of the Civil War, had no wealth. He was free but had no wealth. He became a sharecropper. My great-grandfather Silas was born a number of years after the end of slavery, and he was drafted to serve in World War I

How to reduce the wealth...

 for organizing local sharecroppers. Oliver Moore was lynched in Edgecomb County, North Carolina, for frightening a white girl. Nathan Bird was lynched near Luling, Texas, for refusing to turn his son over to a mob.

The "crime" of living...

 a respect for ownership, the respect we should give the creator, the remixer, the owner, the property owner, the copyright owner of this extraordinarily powerful stuff, and not a generation of sharecroppers.

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