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The Human Face of Hopelessness

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Sam Nichols sharecropper Boone County, Arkansas circa 1935 (Courtesy LOC)

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Sharecropper’s wife Washington County, Arkansas circa 1935 (Courtesy LOC)

Child labor in sharecropper’s cotton field circa 1935 (Courtesy LOC)

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Thirteen-year old field hand Americus, Georgia circa 1935 (Courtesy LOC)

Lauderdale County Mississippi circa 1935 (Courtesy LOC)

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McIntosh County Oklahoma circa 1935 (Courtesy LOC)

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Sharecropper’s son Arkansas circa 1935 (Courtesy LOC)

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Childhood denied as punishment for being a Southerner (Courtesy LOC)

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Sharecropper’s children Arkansas circa 1935 (Courtesy LOC)

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Children of evicted Arkansas sharecropper circa 1935 (Courtesy LOC)

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Mother and child Chesnee, South Carolina circa 1935 (Courtesy LOC)

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Mother and child Walker County Alabama circa 1935 (Courtesy LOC)

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Mother and child Tangipahoa Parish Louisiana circa 1935 (Courtesy LOC)

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Mother and infant Arkansas circa 1935. (Courtesy LOC)

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Sharecropper Person County, NC (Courtesy LOC)

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Sharecropper farther and his first child Person County, NC circa 1935 (Courtesy LOC)

Sharecropper’s cabin, Southeast Missouri Farms 1938 May. (Courtesy LOC)

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