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Negroes shooting craps behind a tenant house, disposing of their cotton money on Saturday afternoon, Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Children of migrant agricultural workers in California

Children of migrant agricultural workers in California

A black and white photo of a group of people, possibly related to: Auction sales in Greene County are frequent because as farm conditions became worse families move into smaller houses and sell excess furniture. Owensburg, Indiana

Free lunch counter at farmers field day, U.S. Dry Land Experiment Station, Akron, Colorado

Harry Thaw and sister, behind fan, New York

Harry Thaw and sister, behind fan, New York

Negroes shooting craps behind a tenant house, disposing of their cotton money on Saturday afternoon, Marcella Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Bridgeton, New Jersey. Seabrook Farm. Cakes, pies and soft drinks are sold in the fields to the pickers

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Striking cotton pickers talk it over. The strike is failing. Kern County, California. "I don't care: Let them throw me in jail. There's somebody will take my place"

Bakersfield, California. Applications for "grants" during cotton pickers' strike

Bakersfield, California. Outside Farm Security Administration (FSA) "grant" office during cotton pickers' strike

Kern County, California. Cotton pickers emptying sacks at eleven a.m. Stopped from further work for the day by rain

Handbill distributed among cotton workers during strike. California

"Damned if we'll work for what they pay folks hereabouts." Crittenden County, Arkansas. Cotton workers on the road, carrying all they possess in the world

Kern County, California. Night street meeting of cotton strikers near end of defeated strike. Strikers received seventy-five cents per 100 pounds; demanded one dollar. In 1910 cotton growers in Imperial County advertised for pickers in the Southwest to come to Imperial Valley to pick for one dollar per 100 pounds

Bakersfield, California. Applications for "grants" during cotton pickers' strike

Unpicked cotton lying in field in front of billboard offering to cash powder plant paychecks. Many, who in other years would be picking cotton, are now employed at the powder plant. Millington, Tennessee

Striking cotton pickers talk it over. The strike is failing. Kern County, California. "I don't care: Let them throw me in jail. There's somebody will take my place"

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During the cotton strike, the International Labor Defense distributes clothing and shoes to destitute families of striking cotton pickers. Kern County, California

Yabucoa, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Sugar cane workers on strike. The loaf of bread each one is holding is their lunch

A black and white photo of a man in a field. Farmers during Great Depression

I don't care whose girl you were you're my girl no

A black and white photo of a man smoking a cigarette. Office of War Information Photograph

U.S. 99. On ridge over Tehachapi Mountains. Heavy truck route between Los Angeles and San Joaquin Valley over which migrants travel back and forth

Scene in the cotton field of the Baptist Orphanage, near Waxahachie. These boys, from seven years old and upward, pick cotton, helping this man, outside of school hours., There are 20 children in the Orphanage, mostly girls, and it is supported by the Baptists of Texas. Location: Waxahachie [vicinity], Texas.

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., six days per week. Dolls and buggies are the chief interests of the little girls

Picket's sign outside copper mine during strike. Ducktown, Tennessee

The cotton pickers on this farm were temporary neighbors to the owner. Four adults and seven children. The latter as follows: one six year old boy picks one hundred pounds a day. His father said "He picks one hundred pounds every day." Two children of seven pick one hundred and fifty pounds a day each. One of nine years picks about two hundred pounds. Several from ten to fifteen pick three to four hundred pounds. The whole group picks a bale a day. (1,600 to 1,800) pounds a day. Location: McKinney [vicinity], Texas.

Cotton pickers boarding truck to take them to cotton fields, Pine Bluff, Arkansas

Elbert Hollingsworth, ten year old cotton picker. Picks 125 pounds a day. Also Ruby Hollingsworth, seven year old cotton picker. Works all day, early and late, in the hot sun. Picks about thirty-five pounds a day. Father, mother, and several brothers and sisters pick. They get only five or six months of schooling. "It's not 'nuff," the father said. The children said "We'd ruther go to school." Address Box 18, R.F.D. Location: Denison, Texas

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