Children with Sweet Potatoes in Mississippi 1938

Children of sharecroppers gather sweet potatoes near Laurel, Mississippi in November 1938. This image provides insight into the agricultural practices and economic challenges faced by families in the Southern United States during the Great Depression. Sharecropping was a prevalent system in which landowners provided land for farming in exchange for a share of the crops.

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