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The family of Mr. Leroy Dunn, chopping cotton in a rented field near White Plains, Greene County, Georgia, June 1941.

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A group of men standing next to each other, Arkansas cotton pickers - early morning.

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Lunch hour for negro tomato pickers, Homestead, Florida, Jan. 1938.

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Star pupil, 82 years old, reading her lesson in adult class, Gee's Bend, Alabama, May 1939.

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A black and white photo of a man riding a bike, Palm Beach, Florida, March 1939.

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The barbed-wire enclosed camp for migratory workers at the Cannon [Canning] Company of Bridgeville, Delaware.

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Migratory agricultural workers at the Little Creek end of the Norfolk-Cape Charles Ferry. They are going to Bridgeville, Delaware to pick apples. July 1940.

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Carpenters and construction workers waiting outside Florida State employment office trying to get jobs on Camp Blanding, Starke, Florida. Dec. 1940

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Church service in the Negro church, Woodville, Greene County, Georgia, October 1941.

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Migratory laborers cutting celery, Belle Glade, Florida, January 1941.

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Mulatto ex-slave in her house near Greensboro, Alabama, May 1941.

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Civilian Conservation Corps boys putting up a fence, Greene County, Georgia, May 1941.

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Mrs. Gus Wright, Farm Security Administration client with her canned goods, Oakland community, Greene County, Georgia, November 1941.

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Mrs. Annie Albrittan, who does washing in her home in Woodville, Greene County, Georgia, November 1941.

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Negro sharecropper and son who will be resettled, Transylvania Project, Louisiana, January 1939.

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Negro tenant farmer who grew strawberries on shares near Hammond, Louisiana. The husband said that in a good year they came out with maybe two hundred dollars, April 1939.

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Single tubular well ready to pour well slab on ground; Safe well demonstration near Ridge, Maryland, July 1941.

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An FSA [Farm Security Administration] supervisor consults a borrower about unsanitary water supply; Safe well demonstration, near La Plata, Maryland [Charles County,] July 1941.

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Wife and children of a Negro tenant farmer, Tupelo, Miss., Aug. 1935.

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Reading the Bible in the "storefront" Baptist Church, Chicago, Illinois.

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Children of family on relief playing, Chicago, Illinois.

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Pastor of the Pentecostal Church, Chicago, Illinois.

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Unloading oysters from packet boat arriving at New Orleans, La.

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Meeting of NYA [National Youth Administration] girls with an instructor at the Good Shepherd Community Center, Chicago, Illinois.

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A group of men standing in front of a store, Scene at Smithland, Kentucky.

Old Iron Bracket--hand-forged from iron made at Coalins Forest and Game Reservation, between Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers, in Kentucky. Resettlement now owns the land and site of the old iron furnace which was built by slave labor and a chief source of iron for Confederate Army during Civil War.

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A black and white photo of a group of children, Children of miners, Kentucky, 1935.

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Cotton hoer near Clarksdale, Miss., June 1937.

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Negroes kneeling at graves of their relatives, and being blessed by Priest with Holy Water, New Roads, La.

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Fisherman's home along the Bayou near Akers, La., Oct. 1938.

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Negro boy sitting by the stove on a cold in the strawberry picking season near Independence, La. April 1939.

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Negro domestic servant, Atlanta, Georgia. May 1939.

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Corner of room of living quarters provided for Negro strawberry pickers near Independence, Louisiana, April 1939.

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Negroes in bunkhouse in strawberry fields near Hammond, Louisiana; Note crude bunks, straw mattresses, and crowded conditions, April 1939.

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Domestic servants waiting for street car on way early in the morning. Mitchell Street, Atlanta, Georgia, May 1939.

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Old brown stonehouses now occupied by Negroes in Chicago, Illinois, April 1941.

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The bar at Palm Tavern, Negro restaurant on 47th Street, Chicago, Illinois, April 1941.

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Negro family living in crowded quarters, Chicago, Illinois, April 1941.

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Members of the congregation of the "store front" Baptist Church, Chicago, Illinois, April, 1941.

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Back steps of apartments in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois, April 1941.

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Kitchen of apartment occupied by Negroes, South Side of Chicago, Illinois, April 1941.

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Crowds watching roller-skating exhibition, Chicago, Illinois.

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Negro slum area between D and C Streets off 1st Street, SW, Washington, D.C.; Most houses have five small rooms renting for $20.50 a month, with rear wood kitchen shed, cold water, outdoor privy.

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Outside water supply; Washington, D.C.; September 1935.

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Florida migrants getting aboard the truck which will take them from Belcross, NC to another job in Onley, VA, July 1940.

Louise Washington on her way to attend the launching of the Liberty ship U.S.S. Booker T. Washington

Louise Washington, a federal government employee and granddaughter of Booker T. Washington being greeted by an unidentified woman

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Louise Washington on her way to attend the launching of the Liberty ship U.S.S. Booker T. Washington

Louise Washington, a federal government employee and granddaughter of Booker T. Washington being greeted by an unidentified woman

Part of a Negro tenant family, on a farm near Greensboro, Alabama, May 1941.

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Flood refugees, Arkansas., gelatin silver print

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The last truckload of cotton hoers from Memphis bound for the Wilson Cotton Plantation in Arkansas, 43 miles distant, June 1937.

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These cotton hoers work from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. for $1.00 near Clarksdale, Mississippi, June-July 1937.

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Women being transported from Memphis, Tennessee to an Arkansas plantation, July 1937.

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Picking cotton, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas, September 1938.

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Negro making purchase at traveling general store near Forrest City, Arkansas, September 1938.

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Flood refugee camp, Forrest City, Ark.

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Negro flood refugees lined up and waiting for food in Forrest City, Arkansas camp; Feb. 1937.

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Children of sharecropper, near West Memphis, Arkansas, 1935.

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Blind street musicians, West Memphis, Arkansas, Sept. 1935.

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An old black and white photo of two women, Sharecroppers, Pulaski Co., Ark.

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Sunday in Little Rock, Ark., 1935.

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Cotton pickers receiving sixty cents a day, Pulaski County, Arkansas, October 1935.

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Cotton on porch of sharecropper's home, Maria plantation, Arkansas, October 1935.

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Sharecropper on Sunday, Little Rock, Ark., October 1935.

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Constance Daniel and Jerome Robinson; Farm Security Administration [FSA administrative files]; Sept. 1941.

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Washing greens by pump near metal shelters at Okeechobee Migratory Labor Camp. Belle Glade, Fla. Feb. 1941

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Migratory workers fishing to eat, Belle Glade, Florida, January 1939.

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In front of city hall, Belle Glade, Florida, January 1939.

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Negro children playing outside of nursery at Okeechobee migratory labor camps built by Farm Security Administration, Belle Glade, Florida, February 1941.

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Hotel" in Pahokee, Lake Okeechobee, Florida, living quarters for migratory agricultural workers, February 1941.

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Negro agricultural laborers watching one of their houses burn to the ground; All they have left is piled on the ground.

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Vegetable pickers, migrants, waiting after work to be paid, near Homestead, Florida, February 1939.

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Negro laborers sitting around in front of a fire on Saturday night in a street of the Negro quarter of Belle Glade, Florida, February 1941.

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During the church service at a Negro church in Heard County, Georgia, April 1941.

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At a meeting of Negro Farm Security Administration borrowers in a church near Woodville, Georgia, Greene County, May 1941.

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At a meeting of Negro FSA borrowers in a church near Woodville, Greene County, Georgia, May 1941.

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Funeral of nineteen year old Negro saw mill worker in Heard County, Georgia, May 1941.

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Mr. Ed. Downes, FSA director in Greene, Georgia, speaking on "Food for Defense."

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Singing "Trying to Make a Hundred, Ninety-Nine and a Half Won't Do" during the collection at Negro church in Heard County, Georgia.

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Peach pickers being driven to the orchards. They earn seventy-five cents a day. Muscella, Georgia.

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Ada Turner and Evelyn M. Driver Home Management and Home Economics Supervisor, canning English peas with pressure cooker in Mrs. Missouri Thomas' kitchen, Flint River Farms, Georgia, May 1939.

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4th and 5th in Flint River school, Ga. demonstrate a health moving picture, which they made. May 1939.

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Project family picking peas in their garden, Flint River Farms, Ga. May 1939.

Ben Turner and family in their wagon with mule team. Flint River Farms, Georgia. May 1939.

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Street scene in the Negro district on Easter morning, Chicago, Illinois.

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Members of the Moors, a Negro religious group of Chicago, Illinois.

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Undertaker before funeral services, Southside, Chicago, Illinois.

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Office force of insurance company which employs Negroes and sells insurance to Negroes, Chicago, Illinois.

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Art training is sponsored by the Good Shepherd Community Center. Chicago, Illinois.

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In front of Pilgrim Baptist Church on Easter Sunday, Southside of Chicago, Illinois.

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Bartender and owner of tavern on the Southside of Chicago, Illinois.

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The movies are popular in the Negro section of Chicago, Illinois, April 1941.

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Ida B. Wells Housing Project for Negroes, Chicago, Illinois, April 1941.

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Stable hand and trainer eating picnic lunch before the Shelby County Horse Show and Fair, Shelbyville, Kentucky. Aug. 1940.

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Former slave quarters now used as milk house on farm near Bardstown, Kentucky, August 1940.

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Negro mother teaching children numbers and alphabet in home of sharecropper, Transylvania, Louisiana, January 1939.

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On All Saints' Day at New Roads, La. Negroes assembled in the church for preliminary ceremnoies and then marched en masse to the cemetry for ceremonies there; The part of the group is shown entering the cemetry.

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Children of Negroes dressed in Sunday best for ceremonies - memorial services, All Saints' Day, New Roads, La.

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