Sentences with phrase «former sharecropper»
As one scholar put it, the term includes «hollows in the Appalachian Mountains, former sharecroppers» shacks in the Mississippi Delta, desolate Indian reservations on the Great Plains, and emerging colonia along the Rio Grande.»
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Set in hard - times Mississippi just before, during and after World War II and based on a 2008 novel by Hillary Jordan, Mudbound focuses on two poor families: one white farmers (the McAllans); the other black sharecroppers (the Jacksons) who work the former's land.
Will Allen is the son of a sharecropper, former professional basketball player, ex-corporate sales leader and now farmer.