A Photo Dossier on Sharecropping
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Wife of a sharecropper |
Sharecroppers |
Sharecropper's child suffering from rickets and
malnutrition |
Shack of Negro sharecropper |
Front porch of tenant farmer's house |
Window in a sharecropper's cabin |
Interior of tenant farmer's home, Lousiana |
Kitchen corner in Alabama tenant farmer's house |
Tenant farmer on his front porch. This farm is
owned by an out-of-state woman and has been rented by this family for eleven years. The
man says that the agent is changed so often that no one ever takes any interest in the
condition of the land or the buildings. |
An overseer's house in the sharecropper's
section. |
Cotton Pickers |
Weighing in Cotton |
Parkin (vicinity), Arkansas. The families of
evicted sharecroppers of the Dibble plantation. They were legally evicted the week of
January 12, 1936, the plantation having charged that by membership in the Southern Tenant
Farmers' Union they were engaging in a conspiracy to retain their homes; this contention
granted by the court, the eviction, though at the point of a gun, was quite legal. The
pictures were taken just after the evictions before they were moved into the tent colony
they later enjoyed. |
Evicted sharecroppers along Highway 60, New
Madrid County, Missouri. |
State highway officials moving sharecroppers. |
Evicted Union activist. |
President of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union
at Hill House, Mississippi. |
White and black solve problems together on the
Sherwood Eddy cotton cooperative of Hill House, Mississippi. |
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