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Negro day laborers brought in by truck from nearby towns, waiting to be paid off and buy supplies, for cotton picking inside plantation store, Friday night, Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, October 1939

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FSA Miss. 8/14 M. Post 1939-40 2/3 4718 (Oct. 1939)
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Photographs Photographic 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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The New York Public Library

Keywords

  1. African American Agricultural Laborers
  2. African Americans
  3. Cotton Pickers
  4. Cotton Plantation Workers
  5. Mississippi
  6. Stores & Shops
  7. United States

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