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African American day laborers standing near and on the back of farm trucks parked on the side of a road near the Hallan Bridge while drivers bid and offer them between 50 cents and one dollar to work as cotton pickers on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations, Memphis, Tennessee, October 1939

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Original negative #: 30631-M5; Caption on back: "Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations. Between about 4 to 6:30 A.M., every morning during the season near the Hallan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee crowds of negroes in the streets gather and are loaded into trucks by drivers who bid and offer them from 50¢ per day to $1.00. 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

Record Contributed By

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. Day Laborers
  5. Farm Trucks
  6. Memphis (Tenn.)
  7. Tennessee

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