Planters, landlords and merchants used economic coercion against black sharecroppers with limited success.

Quilts made by black sharecroppers' wives now hang in museums.

He was killed in a shootout at a church where black sharecroppers were meeting on issues related to organizing with an agrarian union.

"I don't think he helped himself by telling stories about how his father used to pay his old black sharecroppers."

In retaliation for civil rights work, white landowners evicted many black sharecroppers, leaving them both homeless and unemployed.

The black sharecroppers moved across the road from the plantation and into a subdivision that became known as Diamond.

And suppose it was a black sharecropper who stopped and took care of the man.

Cedrick's brother Silas was the last black sharecropper on the place.

A black sharecropper's family is poor and hungry.

His plantation, called Trail Lake, was worked by black sharecroppers.