african american agricultural laborers

A hoe-crew of Negro men and women in a young cotton field, Aliceville,...

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Bayou Bourbeaux Plantation operated by Bayou Bourbeaux Farmstead Assoc...

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Berry pickers, at 5 a.m., waiting for the truck to haul them to work. ...

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Waiting for your team at the cotton gin, Florida.

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Cotton pickers, Florida. Florida Sterescope Cards Collection, NYPL.

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Fanning and pounding rice for household use.

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Corner of room of living quarters provided for Negro strawberry picker...

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Cotton hoers loading at Memphis, Tennessee for the day's work in Arkan...

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Migratory agricultural workers on board the "Princess Anne" going to t...

Negro tenant farmer who grew strawberries on shares near Hammond, Loui...

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Negroes in bunkhouse in strawberry fields near Hammond, Louisiana; Not...

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She picked her usual thirty-five pounds alone.

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Weighing up. - A black and white photo of a group of people

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Resting the mules which get too hot when the cotton is high in mid-sum...

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

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Negro day laborers brought in by truck from nearby towns, waiting to b...

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African American day laborers standing near and on the back of farm tr...

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Males engaged in agriculture in seven southeastern cotton states.

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Negro agricultural laborers watching one of their houses burn to the g...

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Vegetable pickers, migrants, waiting after work to be paid, near Homes...

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Tractor and driver on the Aldridge Plantation. [Near Leland,] Mississi...

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Planting sugar-cane on a Louisiana plantation.

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Negro day laborers brought in by truck from nearby towns, waiting to b...

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Migratory agricultural workers at the Little Creek end of the Norfolk-...

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Cutting sugar cane in Louisiana.

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These cotton hoers work from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. for $1.00 near Clarksdal...

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Hotel" in Pahokee, Lake Okeechobee, Florida, living quarters for migra...

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Colored tractor driver and empty cabin on mechanized cotton plantation...

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Colored tractor driver and empty cabin on mechanized cotton plantation...

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In the field - sowing. - A black and white drawing of a group of peopl...

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A large cotton field. - A group of people picking cotton in a field

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Women being transported from Memphis, Tennessee to an Arkansas plantat...

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Pounding rice. - A drawing of a woman holding a bucket of rice

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Cotton pickers, Florida. Florida Sterescope Cards Collection, NYPL.

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Negro laborers sitting around in front of a fire on Saturday night in ...

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Peach pickers being driven to the orchards. They earn seventy-five cen...

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Mississippi Delta, on Mississippi Highway No. 1 between Greenville and...

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Cotton pickers, Florida. Florida Sterescope Cards Collection, NYPL.

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Figure 4. - Farmworkers who expect to remain at Camp Ocheebokee for an...

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

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Negro tractor driver. Aldridge Plantation, [near Leland] Mississippi

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One or two hands in the barn-yard.

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Outside the Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during the...

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Mississippi Delta, on Mississippi Highway No. 1 between Greenville and...

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Pallas. - A drawing of a woman standing in a field

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Day after day I met Judy coming out of her patch.

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Berry pickers. Southern New Jersey. These pickers are Negroes brought ...

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Berry pickers. Southern New Jersey. These pickers are Negroes brought ...

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Cotton hoers (day laborers) move from one field across the highway to ...

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"The girls shuffled the rice about with their feet until it was clayed...

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The hoe they consider purely a feminine implement.

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Hoe work. - A black and white photo of a group of people in a field

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Negro field hand getting ready to go to town on a Saturday afternoon. ...

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Pickers at work. - A black and white photo of people in a field

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Near the bridge two negro women are fishing.

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To-day the hands are " toting " the rice into the flats.

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Outside the Farm Security Administration (FSA) grant office during the...

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I saw a raft of very fine poplar logs being made.

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Cotton pickers, Florida. Florida Sterescope Cards Collection, NYPL.

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Figure 5. - Picking up potatoes provided higher earning than most jobs...

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Cotton choppers with riding boss.

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A woman rice planter [by] Patience Pennington [pseudonym] with an intr...

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Old Maum Mary came to bring me a present of sweet potatoes. "

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Berry pickers. Southern New Jersey. These pickers are Negroes brought ...

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Old method of harvesting wheat on southern farms.

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Figure 7. - Another of the operations most commonly engaged in by Atla...

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The tractor driver is colored. His wages when he works is one dollar a...

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Tractor and driver on the Aldridge Plantation. [Near Leland,] Mississi...

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The sheaves are beaten with flails.

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Cotton team in North Carolina

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Cotton hoers (day laborers) move from one field across the highway to ...

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Cotton field hand sitting on her porch on Sunday afternoon. Near Blyth...

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Mechanical cotton picker at work; [Rust Cotton Picker Company, Memphis...

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"The field with its picturesque workers."

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The tractor driver is colored. His wages when he works is one dollar a...

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

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Waiting for your team at the cotton gin, Florida.

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Colored field hands hoe cotton from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. for sixty cents a...

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His wife is very stirring.

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Waiting for your team at the cotton gin, Florida.

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Cotton pickers, Florida. Florida Sterescope Cards Collection, NYPL.

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

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Cotton pickers, Florida. Florida Sterescope Cards Collection, NYPL.

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A profit of $2,723.61 on fifteen acres of strawberries; The strawberry...

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Berry pickers. Southern New Jersey. These pickers are Negroes brought ...

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Negro tractor driver. Aldridge Plantation, [near Leland] Mississippi

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The tractor driver is colored. His wages when he works is one dollar a...

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The tractor driver is colored. His wages when he works is one dollar a...

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You see a stack of rice approaching, and you perceive a pair of legs, ...

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Sol's wife, Afrodite, is a specimen of maternal health and vigor.

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Agricultural peasant of the black belt.

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Negro field hand getting ready to go to town on a Saturday afternoon. ...

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Colored plowboys on cotton plantation in Brazos riverbottoms coming in...

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The yearly pow-wow at Casa Bianca.

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Five children asked me to let them "hunt tetta".

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It is tied into sheaves, which the Negroes do very skilfully, with a w...

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Winnowing house for preparation of seed rice.

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Waiting for your team at the cotton gin, Florida.

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