Increased mechanization in farming left sharecroppers with little to do. But with its booming cotton economy, the Mississippi Delta still attracted a steady influx of migrants from the rest of the ...
That was a minority of Southern black farmers. Most of them turned into tenants and sharecroppers. The land crisis in the South endured throughout the 19th century, and affected more than black ...
Sometimes vulnerable groups with legally insecure land rights (women, sharecroppers, tenant farmers and urban squatters) suffer heavily from the loss of lives and incomes during a disaster ...