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Hoe culture in the South. farmhand. Near Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham, United States

child on the Mississippi Delta

Child of impoverished tenant family working on farm. Alabama

Alabama working in field near Eutaw, Alabama

Eutaw, United States

Alabama plow girl. Near Eutaw, Alabama

Eutaw, United States

Tenant farmer near Thomaston, Georgia, speaking of the drought: "The crop is nigh to nothin' as I ever see"

Thomaston, United States

Drought corn. Central Georgia

Lunchtime for these Georgia peach pickers. They earn seventy-five cents a day in the orchards. Muscella, Georgia

Transportation in the South. Mississippi

Sunday morning in Tennessee

Alabama tenant farmer near Anniston, Alabama

Anniston, United States

The older brother teaches the younger on a farm in the Piedmont, North Carolina

Farm hands. Threshing day near Durham, North Carolina

Durham, United States

The older brother teaches the younger on a farm in the Piedmont, North Carolina

North Carolina threshing

J.M. Rees tells his story of violence in Arkansas. Hill House, Mississippi

Ex-sharecroppers from Arkansas established on Sherwood Eddy's cooperative experiment at Hill House, Mississippi

One of the evicted sharecroppers from Arkansas now settled at Hill House, Mississippi

Peach picker. Muscella, Georgia

One side of the monument erected to race prejudice. New Orleans, Louisiana

One side of the monument erected to race prejudice. New Orleans, Louisiana

Hoe culture in the South. Mississippi

Hoe culture in the South. Mississippi

Hoe culture in the South. Mississippi