- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Sharecroppers, Greene County
- Creator:
- Lange, Dorothea
- Publisher:
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, LC-USF34-T01-017335-C
- Date of Original:
- 1937
- Subject:
- Sharecroppers--Georgia--Greene County
Sharecropping--Georgia--Greene County
African American men--Georgia--Greene County
African American women--Georgia--Greene County
Men--Georgia--Greene County
Women--Georgia--Greene County
Hoes--Georgia--Greene County
Agriculture--Georgia--Greene County
Cotton growing--Georgia--Greene County
Hats--Georgia--Greene County - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Greene County, 33.57878, -83.16666
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Cotton sharecroppers in Greene County, 1937. The sociologist Arthur F. Raper studied the county in the 1930s and found that soil depletion, low cotton prices, and boll weevil attacks were causing a massive outmigration of farmers.
Image of cotton sharecroppers in working in Greene County, Georgia, 1937. An African American man and woman hold hoes and stand in a field. They wear hats. Their clothes are ragged and torn.
The Great Depression did not end in Georgia until the United States entered World War II in 1941. Conditions were harsh for blacks, whose entanglement in the sharecropping system dated back to the end of the Reconstruction era. While some still owned their own farms in the 1920s, many were forced off their land entirely by declining prices and into menial jobs in towns and cities. Others took the now-familiar path of migrating to urban areas in the state or industrial centers in the North, often joining relatives who had migrated during the mid-1910s. By 1935 just 12 percent of blacks owned the land they worked. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/great-depression/m-10690/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC
Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division - Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/great-depression
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia
Photograph by Dorothea Lange, Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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