Document 22.7 Sharecropping Family in Washington County, Arkansas, 1935

Sharecropping Family in Washington County, Arkansas, 1935

The Resettlement Administration (later the Farm Security Administration) documented the plight of migrant farmworkers and sharecroppers in numerous photographs. The following photo, taken by the noted photojournalist Arthur Rothstein, depicts a sharecropper’s wife and daughters in Washington County, Arkansas, in 1935.

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