Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 50 hardscrabble 47 farmer 46 freed slaves 46 Baptist preacher 46 Jim Crow 45 Southerner 44 segregationist 44 slave 44 slaves 43 backwoods 43 bluesman 43 blacks 43 Depression era 43 slavery 43 Selma Ala. 42 grandfather 42 plantation 42 segregated 42 Civil Rights Movement 42 textile mill 42 Mamie 42 antebellum 41 Negroes 41 abolitionist 41 Sidney Poitier 41 Muddy Waters 41 farm 41 racial segregation 40 blacksmith 40 laborer 40 Harriet Tubman 40 cotton 40 humble beginnings 39 poverty stricken 39 father 39 rancher 39 maternal grandfather 39 desegregated 39 coal miner 39 Leflore County 39 Clarksdale 39 civil rights 39 segregation 39 momma 38 Tuskegee 38 enslaved 38 Thurmond 38 preacher 38 hillbilly 38 boyhood 38 Edgefield 38 fatherless 38 Selma 38 homesteaders 38 steelworker 38 upbringing 37 farming 37 Booker T. Washington 37 Mississippi 37 lynching 37 Robeson 37 Jackson Miss. 37 Woody Guthrie 37 peasant 37 Poitier 37 widowed mother 37 Rev. Martin Luther 37 Dust Bowl 37 Malcolm X 37 illiterate 37 Langston Hughes 37 mama 36 grandmother 36 uncle 36 cobbler 36 room schoolhouse 36 Montgomery Ala. 36 migrant worker 36 schoolteacher 36 spirituals 36 jazz musician 36 Frederick Douglass 36 uneducated 36 interracial 36 retired schoolteacher 36 log cabin 36 Morehouse College 36 ghetto 35 Confederate 35 Herenton 35 Clarence Thomas 35 barrio 35 farmworkers 35 Civil War era 35 minstrel 35 Alabama 35 schoolhouse 35 seamstress 35 impoverished 35 biracial 35 mule