Sharecropper Family in Mississippi River Bottoms 1938

In May 1938, the wife and child of a sharecropper are seen in the bottom lands of the Mississippi River in Missouri. Sharecropping was a common agricultural practice in the southern United States, where families worked land owned by others in exchange for a share of the crops. Many such families faced difficult living conditions and economic hardships.

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