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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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Lange, Dorothea

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FSA Ark. 1/14 Lange, 1937-38 4510
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Photographs
Contributors:
United States. Farm Security Administration
Created Date:
1937 06
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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 Americans
  2. Arkansas
  3. Cotton Pickers
  4. Cotton Plantation Workers
  5. Employment
  6. Houses
  7. Migrant Laborers
  8. Roads
  9. Tennessee
  10. Trucks
  11. United States

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