MS - Mexican Child Laborers on Knowlton Plantation, Perthshire 1939

This vintage photo from 1939, captured by FSA photographer Marion Post Wolcott, shows two Mexican children sitting on the steps of a railway station on Knowlton Plantation in Perthshire, Mississippi. These children were part of a group of transient laborers contracted from Texas each season to pick cotton. Living in temporary quarters during the harvest, this photograph highlights the harsh realities and economic vulnerabilities faced by migrant workers and their families in the Jim Crow South.

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