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Mexican labor is brought in trucks by a contractor for the duration of the cotton picking season to the Mississippi Delta. This is on the Hopson Plantation

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Mexican labor is brought in trucks by a contractor for the duration of the cotton picking season to the Mississippi Delta. This is on the Hopson Plantation

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01/01/1939

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Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer

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coahoma county

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