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Sharecroppers picking cotton in Georgia, photograph by T.W. Ingersoll, 1898.

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Sharecropper woman sitting on porch, 1937.

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Evicted sharecroppers along a road in southeastern Missouri, U.S., January 1939.

Arthur Rothstein—Farm Security Administration/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-fsa-8a10410)

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Evicted sharecroppers with their belongings along a road in Missouri, 1939.

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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