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African American cotton plantation worker, hired as a day laborer, riding a mule and holding down a sack of cotton in the cotton field at Nugent Plantation, Benoit, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, October 1939

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Original negative #: 30542-M3; Caption on back: "'Riders' bring in the sacks of cotton on mule's back from the field to the wagon where it is unloaded and weighed. This is day labor brought in from Greenville, and the pickers receive 75¢ per 100 pounds, on Nugent Plantation, Benoit, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi. October 1939.
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Image
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Photographs Gelatin Silver Prints
Contributors:
United States. Farm Security Administration
Created Date:
1939 10
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Farm Security Administration Collection

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public Library

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Keywords

  1. African American Men
  2. African Americans
  3. Cotton Plantation Workers
  4. Day Laborers
  5. Mississippi
  6. Mules

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