1937 Cotton Workers at Aldridge Plantation Mississippi

Aldridge Plantation in Leland, Mississippi, is the setting for this vintage image capturing around 200 agricultural workers hoeing cotton in June 1937. Many of these laborers are former tenant farmers, earning one dollar a day. This image documents Southern agricultural labor practices and conditions in the 1930s, providing insight into the historical landscape of American farming.

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