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African American seasonal cotton workers hoping to be hired for a day, 1938 (b/w photo)

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XOS3696998
Image title
African American seasonal cotton workers hoping to be hired for a day, 1938 (b/w photo)
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Artist
Lange, Dorothea (1895-1965) / American
Location
Private Collection
Medium
photograph
Date
1938 AD (C20th AD)
Image description

In Memphis, Tennessee hundreds of colored laborers congregated near the bridge every morning at daylight in hopes of work chopping cotton on a plantation. They are hauled to and from work on trucks. Reduced cotton acreage has made employment scarce for this class of seasonal labor in all towns. "You can't live the commonest way on six bits a day. Not alone nor no way. A man like me can't get no foothold. It's a mighty tough old go. The people here in the morning are hungry, raggedy, but they don't make no hungry march"

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Bridgeman Images
Image keywords
20th century / agriculture / 1930s / USA / North America / America (continent) / farm / african-american / worker / black and white / photo / Lange Dorothea (1895-1965) / photographer / female artist / artist / art / Great Depression / Farm Security Administration / New Deal / tennessee / 30s / thirties / union / farm / financial crisis / poor / employment / men / great depression / poverty / labor / unemployment / depression / subsistence / fibers / farmers / north america / laborer / impoverished / day laborers / hardship / industry / cotton / farming / shelby county / america / casuals / seasonal / overalls / farm security administration / plantation worker / textiles / crops / memphis / usa / fsa / Photograph / Photography / Mzphoto
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