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Migratory field workers picking cotton in the San Joaquin Valley, California. Negroes, Mexicans, and refugee whites pick cotton together in this field. These pickers are being paid seventy-five cents per one hundred poounds of picked cotton. Strikers, organizing under the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), are demanding one dollar

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Lange, Dorothea

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1938 Nov.
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Keywords

  1. California
  2. Cotton
  3. Nitrate Negatives
  4. San Joaquin Valley
  5. United States

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