EVICTED SHARECROPPERS

The New Deal's Agricultural Adjustment Administration maintained farm prices by reducing acreage in production, a policy that often resulted in the eviction of tenant farmers when the land they worked was left idle. These African American sharecroppers protested AAA policies that caused cotton farmers to evict them from their homes. They were among the many rural laborers whose lives were made worse by New Deal agricultural policies. © Bettmann/Corbis.