Editing Sharecropping (section)

=== Sharecropping and socioeconomic status ===
[[File:J.B.Reeves (Evelyn Reeves) Tomball,TX - Sharecropper.jpg|left|thumb|207x207px|White sharecropper, J. B. Reeves, in [[Tomball, Texas]].]]
About two-thirds of sharecroppers were white, the rest black. Sharecroppers, the poorest of the poor, organized for better conditions. The racially integrated [[Southern Tenant Farmers Union]] made gains for sharecroppers in the 1930s. Sharecropping had diminished in the 1940s due to the Great Depression, farm mechanization, and other factors.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sharecropping |url=https://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/themes/sharecropping/ |website=[[Slavery by Another Name#Film adaptation|Slavery by Another Name]] |publisher=[[PBS]] |access-date=7 December 2021}}</ref>