Migratory field workers picking cotton in the San Joaquin Valley, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange. # 2896999

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Migratory field workers picking cotton in the San Joaquin Valley, California. Negroes, Mexicans, and refugee whites pick cotton together in this field. These pickers are being paid seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds of picked cotton. Strikers, organizing under Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), are demanding one dollar.

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