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Women being transported from Memphis, Tennessee to an Arkansas plantation, July 1937

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Lange, Dorothea

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FSA Tennessee Lange 1937 Box 12/14
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Image
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Photographs Photographic Prints
Contributors:
United States. Farm Security Administration
Created Date:
1937 07
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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 American Women
  3. African Americans
  4. Arkansas
  5. Day Laborers
  6. Memphis (Tenn.)
  7. Migrant Laborers
  8. Tennessee
  9. Women

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