1938 Southeast Missouri Sharecroppers on Front Porch

A family of sharecroppers sits on the front porch of their home in Southeast Missouri Farms, New Madrid County, in May 1938. Sharecropping was a common agricultural practice in the Southern United States, where families worked land owned by others for a share of the crops. This arrangement often left workers in debt and poverty.

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