This was mostly due to the successful bi-racial organizing of sharecroppers through the Sharecroppers' Union. By 1920 most were landless sharecroppers and tenant farmers. Former slaves became wage laborers, tenant farmers, or sharecroppers. Landless sharecroppers, laborers, tenants, and nomads had next priority. Many of the freed slaves became sharecroppers and indentured servants. Foreclosure reduced them to the status of sharecroppers or landless laborers. Many freedmen stayed in the area, working on plantations as sharecroppers and tenant farmers. Afterward, the blacks were forced to become sharecroppers or tenant farmers. They generally worked as sharecroppers or tenant farmers. She observed and participated in the daily lives of black impoverished sharecroppers. Nearly 90% of Iranian sharecroppers became landowners as a result. For most tenants and sharecroppers the AAA was a major help. Her family was an African-American farming family in a community of sharecroppers. Evers has befriended a range of people from sharecroppers to presidents. Researchers enrolled 600 poor, African-American sharecroppers from Macon County, Alabama in the study.