My mother and her family moved 14 times in 16 years while she grew up as a sharecropper.

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

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But yeah, I think, Ed, you're absolutely right, is that like Curt Flood said, you know, he was kind of like a sharecropper, you know.

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Taylor, the daughter of a sharecropper, was born Cora Walton in Memphis, Tennessee in 1928 and adopted her stage name because of her love for chocolate.

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Brown, an Alabama native and daughter of a sharecropper, raised the hackles of some Democrats in her 2005 nomination hearings for her comparisons of liberal economic policies with slavery.

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