Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations. Between four and six-thirty every morning during the season, near the Hallan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee, crowds of Negroes in the streets gather and are loaded into trucks by drivers who bid, and offer them anywhere from fifty cents to one dollar per day
Summary
Public domain photograph - historical image of Arkansas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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Date
01/01/1939
Contributors
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer
Location
Raleigh (Memphis, Tenn.), 35.20583, -89.91361
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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