Young Sharecropper Boy Chesnee South Carolina 1937

A young sharecropper boy stands in Chesnee, Spartanburg County, South Carolina, in June 1937. Dorothea Lange captured the realities of agricultural life during the Great Depression through this image. Sharecropping was common in the South, where families farmed land owned by others in exchange for a portion of the crops.

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