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Home of white tenant farmer family. Newport, Oklahoma

Newport, United States

Home of white tenant farmer family. Newport, Oklahoma

Newport, United States

Bound for the wheat harvest. Southwestern Oklahoma

Tractors cultivating cotton. Twenty-two tractors have replaced 130 tenant families on the Aldridge Plantation, near Leland, Mississippi

Tractor on the Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi. One man and a four-row cultivator does the work of eight men and eight mules under the one man-one mule system which is still common

Tractor operator on the Aldridge Plantation near Leland Mississippi. These young African-Americans drive tractors for one dollar and twenty-five cents a day and cabin

Sharecropper's cabin, cotton and corn, near Jackson, Mississippi

Jackson, United States

Sharecropper's cabin and sharecropper's wife. Ten miles south of Jackson, Mississippi

Jackson, United States

Hinds County, Mississippi. "Cotton rules the world," says this sharecropper woman

Hinds County, United States

Abandoned tenant house on a mechanized plantation of the Mississippi Delta

A crew of two hundred colored hoers were brought to the Aldridge Plantation to hoe cotton at one dollar a day. Many of them are ex-tenant farmers. Near Leland, Mississippi

on the Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi. "We know our white folks (planters) and just what to say to please them"

Well, Center County, Oklahoma, belonging to tenant farmer

Main street storefront, Chickasaw, Oklahoma. This is a region from which hundreds of farm families have fled to the west

Pontotoc County, United States

Cleveland County, Oklahoma

Cleveland County, United States

Detail of sharecropper's porch. Washington County, Mississippi

Washington County, United States

Tenant farmer spreading grasshopper bait in his alfalfa field, five miles from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Oklahoma City, United States

Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi. Tractor drivers are not allowed to do anything but drive tractors. Repairs are made by the mechanic at the plantation garage

Cotton farmers near Oil City, Oklahoma, day laborers. Carter County, Oklahoma

Oil City, United States

Ex-tenant farmer, now a day laborer on large cotton farm near Corsicana, Texas

Corsicana, United States

Georgia road sign

Father of Texas migrant family who follow the cotton crop from Corpus Christi to the Panhandle

Mail wagon. Marshall, Texas

Marshall, United States

Tomato packing shed for packing and shipment north. Hazelhurst, Mississippi

Copiah County, United States