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Creator: | Southern Labor Archives |
Title: | Sharecroppers on the move |
Date: | 1930-1949 |
Description: | Text on reverse: "These are not homeward-bound slave laborers in Europe, but home-seeking sharecroppers in the South. Ruthlessly tractored off the land by big business farming, they are doomed to roam the land harvesting the "Grapes of Wrath," unless they are rescued by the Government and established on small farms of their own." Stetson Kennedy (1916-2011), writer and civil rights activist, collected these photographs during the course of his career fighting for equality throughout the Southern United States. Local identification number: L1979-37_199 |
Types: | photographic prints | StillImage |
Subjects: | Kennedy, Stetson | Sharecroppers--Southern States | Relocation (Housing)--Southern States | Migrant agricultural laborers--Southern States | Farmers | Household moving | Roads | United States, Southern States, 35.8176689, -78.6268927103715 |
Collection: | Stetson Kennedy Papers |
Institution: | Georgia State University Special Collections |
Contributors: | Georgia State University. Special Collections |
Original Material: | Stetson Kennedy papers, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library |
Rights and Usage: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/ Cite as: L1979-37_199, Stetson Kennedy Papers, L1979-37, Southern Labor Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University, Atlanta. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). |
Persistent Link to Item: | http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/SKennedy/id/13392 |