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Just one of the million mattresses made by low income-farm families - every mattress made by the family itself of surplus cotton. These are proud possesions in homes where such comfort was unknown before. This Maryland Negro woman shows her mattress to J. B. Pierce, a Federal Negro field agent.

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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Depressions
  3. Forced Migration
  4. New Deal, 1933 1939

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