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Negro sharecropper house. "They treat us better here than where we did live. No privy in sight, had to get water from the spring, so far away that the man was gone twenty minute getting a bucket of water." Person County, North Carolina

Negro sharecropper with twenty acres. He receives eight cents a day for hoeing cotton. Brazos riverbottoms, near Bryan, Texas. "Some of 'em don't get nothin'. They just make these niggers chop that cotton." Few leave the bottoms. "They ain't got nothin' to go on"

Negro sharecropper with twenty acres. He receives eight cents a day for hoeing cotton. Brazos riverbottoms, near Bryan, Texas. "Some of 'em don't get nothin'. They just make these niggers chop that cotton." Few leave the bottoms. "They ain't got nothin' to go on"

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Negro plowing corn. He is a tenant; raises mainly tobacco; has lived here for four years. The cornfield is grassy and poor. On dirt road from Highway 144. Person County, North Carolina. He is saying "You ain't looking for money, is you?" Person County, North Carolina

Negro family who had moved out of the Santee-Cooper basin onto land which they had to clear themselves. Near Bonneau, South Carolina

Negro sharecropper tobacco farm. The path between the house and the well is well worn. Person County, North Carolina

Negro man living near Jefferson, Texas. This Negro owned about thirty acres on which he and his family and his sister and her family lived. They had done no farming for about four years, supporting their families by day labor. The man said he would like to farm again but could not get enough cash to get started

Negro hauling home water. Phoenix, Arizona

Negro sharecropper house. "They treat us better here than where we did live. No privy in sight, had to get water from the spring, so far away that the man was gone twenty minute getting a bucket of water." Person County, North Carolina

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01/01/1939
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Lange, Dorothea, photographer
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Concord (Person County, N.C.) ,  36.44611, -79.06639
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No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html

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