Child at Cotton Picker Strike Meeting Kern County 1938

In November 1938, a child of an undernourished cotton picker attends a strike meeting in Kern County, California. The gathering calls for a wage increase from seventy-five cents to ninety cents per hundred pounds for cotton pickers. The strike ultimately fails, reflecting the labor struggles faced by agricultural workers during this era.

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