Negro cotton hoers, Greenville, Mississippi, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange. # 2896349

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Negro cotton hoers are taken from the Delta cotton towns to the cotton fields. Most of them are displaced sharecroppers swept off the plantations by tractor farming, depression, crop reduction program, etc. Greenville, Mississippi.

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