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Lange, Dorothea Holley, William C

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Contributors:
United States. Farm Security Administration
Created Date:
1940
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From Collection

Plantation South, 1934-1937, by William C. Holley, Ellen Winston, T. J. Woofter, Jr.

Record Contributed By

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. The New York Public Library

Record Harvested From

The New York Public Library

Keywords

  1. African American Agricultural Laborers
  2. African Americans
  3. Cotton Pickers
  4. Southern States

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