Big Mat identifies the Kentucky riding boss as the son of a poor white sharecropper.

Despite this uplift, the county mostly consisted of poor sharecroppers and tenant farmers.

The organization was an interracial union to improve the pay and working conditions of poor sharecroppers.

His mother "fled North," while Raymond and his three older siblings went to live with their grandparents, poor sharecroppers.

Pride was born in Sledge, Mississippi, one of eleven children of poor sharecroppers.

Later at a general store, a poor white sharecropper speaks out against the lynching, arguing that it does not serve a purpose.

His family, was "poor but honest and hardworking" sharecroppers.

Others were day laborers or very poor sharecroppers, who worked under the supervision of the landowner.

Being the son of a poor sharecropper, Perkins did not have a car to drive Maggie to the picture show, so the pair rode on the back of his mule, Becky.

The Latcher family-A family of poor sharecroppers, whose daughter Libby gives birth to a child she claims is fathered by Ricky Chandler.