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Twelve year old son of a cotton sharecropper near Cleveland, Mississippi

Cleveland, United States

Hillhouse, Mississippi Delta cooperative farm

Hillhouse, United States

Cotton sharecropper family near Cleveland, Mississippi

Cleveland, United States

Under the "for rent" sign, through the door, one flight up, is the headquarters of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis, United States

Cotton hoer near Clarksdale, Mississippi

Clarksdale, United States

Grandmother of sharecropper family near Cleveland, Mississippi

Cleveland, United States

Cotton hoer near Clarksdale, Mississippi

Clarksdale, United States

Cotton hoer near Clarksdale, Mississippi

Clarksdale, United States

Feet of cotton hoer near Clarksdale, Mississippi

Clarksdale, United States

Delta cooperative farm. Hillhouse, Mississippi

Hillhouse, United States

Memphis, Tennessee. Cotton hoers are transported to the fields daily during the season. Truck drivers are paid by the planters and serve as "runners" to recruit the men. Trucks leave at five o'clock in the morning for the Arkansas Delta plantations.

Memphis, United States

Member of the Delta cooperative farm at Hillhouse, Mississippi

Hillhouse, United States

Interior of church of the Mississippi Delta

Looking down Union Avenue. Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis, United States

Cotton hoers from Memphis bound for the Wilson Plantation in Arkansas, forty-three miles away

Cottonworker's cabin with outside stairway and loft. Near Blytheville, Arkansas

Blytheville, United States

Cotton sharecroppers. Greene County, Georgia. They produce little, sell little, buy little

Greene County, United States

One of Delta cooperative farmsteads after a year of operation. Hillhouse, Mississippi

Hillhouse, United States

Delta cooperative farm. Hillhouse, Mississippi. Clarence Weems, a young co-operator on the farm. He remembers the evictions in Arkansas, for his father was beaten and disappeared

Hillhouse, United States

Delta cooperative farm cabins and cotton. Hillhouse, Mississippi, after one year of operation

Hillhouse, United States

Working in the community garden which supplies fresh vegetables to twenty-eight families at the Delta cooperative farms. Hillhouse, Mississippi

Hillhouse, United States

Looking down Union Avenue. Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis, United States

Young sharecropper at Chesnee, South Carolina

Chesnee, United States

Sharecropper boy. Chesnee, South Carolina

Chesnee, United States