Parkin (vicinity), Arkansas. The families of evicted sharecroppers from the Dibble plantation. Were legally evicted the week of January 12, 1936. The plantation having charged that by membership in the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union they were engaging in a conspiracy to retain their homes, this contention being granted by the court. The evictions, though at the point of a gun, were quite legal
Summary
Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches).
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Temp. note: usf34batch1
Tags
Date
01/01/1936
Location
arkansas
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