My parents grew up as sharecroppers, so they knew how hard the work of farming could be.
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Melinda is the granddaughter of sharecroppers who grew up in a rural farming community in the Mississippi Delta.
Here, it was a church of lintheads, pulpwooders and sharecroppers, shoutin' people, who said amen like they were throwing a mule shoe.
Like the tele-evangelist Jimmy Swaggart, another of Louisiana's fallen idols, Mr Edwards was the son of sharecroppers, raised among blacks and French-speaking Cajuns.
She was born in the small town of Luverne, Alabama, and her parents and grandparents worked as sharecroppers, though her father later joined the Air Force.
The son of sharecroppers from Alabama, he rose with courage, fortitude and purpose to organize the first student sit-ins and the earliest freedom rides.
It is typical of the towns from which underemployed sharecroppers fled north to Chicago, Detroit and other cities in search of a better life.
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Kazan introduced into cinema the faces and the vibrancy of the unseen American mongrel gallery: Mexican peasants, Italian longshoremen, Appalachian yeomen, black sharecroppers, Anatolian immigrants.
In her travels, Miss Welty, the product of an upper-class home with servants, was shocked by the poverty of the black sharecroppers and white dirt farmers she saw and talked to in rural Mississippi.
When Stewart leaves to continue creating his own sounds, Palmer goes south, to the Delta (and towns like Greenville, Clarksdale, and Bentonia), where the deepest blues were born in the shacks and juke joints of black sharecroppers.
Yet to look at the way Americans portrayed themselves on television, in newspapers, and in magazines, you'd have thought that married women who worked were limited to a handful of elementary school teachers and the unlucky wives of sharecroppers and drunkards.
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