African American day laborers standing near and on the back.

African American day laborers standing near and on the back of farm trucks parked on the side of a road near the Hallan Bridge while drivers bid and offer them between 50 cents and one dollar to work as cotton pickers on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations, Memphis, Tennessee, October 1939. Wolcott, Marion Post -- Photographer. October 1939 Notes: Original negative #: 30631-M5; Caption on back: 'Day laborers being hired for cotton picking on Mississippi and Arkansas plantations. Between about 4 to 6:30 A.M., every morning during the season near the Hallan Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee crowds of negroes in the streets gather and are loaded into trucks by drivers who bid and offer them from 50 cents per day to $1.00. October 1939.' Source: Farm Security Administration Collection. / Tennessee. / Marion Post Wolcott. (more info) Repository: New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Photographs and Prints Division. See more information about this image and others at NYPL Digital Gallery. Persistent URL: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1260216 Rights Info: No known copyright restrictions; may be subject to third party rights (f

Date

1939-10

Collection

FSA/OWI

Archive

Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)

Type

photograph

Original size

760 × 531 pixels

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