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LABOR MEETING, 1930s. A labor organizer, lower right, at a community center meeting, 1930s

LABOR MEETING, 1930s.
A labor organizer, lower right, at a community center meeting, 1930s. Photograph by Lewis W. Hine for the National Research Project of the Works Progress Administration

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1930, 1930s, Activist, African American, America, Black, Center, Early, Group, Hine, Labor Leader, Labor Movement, Lewis, Meeting, Men, Photograph, Wickes, Worker, Working Class

RUN DOWN FARMHOUSE, 1938. Two African American children, one with deformed legs caused by rickets

RUN DOWN FARMHOUSE, 1938.
Two African American children, one with deformed legs caused by rickets, walking in front of a run down farmhouse on badly eroded land near Wadesboro, North Carolina. Photographed by Marion Post Wolcott, December 1938

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1938, African American, Black, Bowlegged, Building, Children, Daily Life, December, Dirt, Early, Erosion, Exterior, Farm, Farm Security Administration, Farmer, Farmhouse, Farming, Field, Fsa, Great Depression, House, Marion, New Deal, North Carolina, Photo, Post, Poverty, Rickets, Rural, Southeast, Wadesboro, Walking, Wolcott

MIGRANT WORKERS, 1935. Pea pickers from Vermont living at squatters camp and working

MIGRANT WORKERS, 1935.
Pea pickers from Vermont living at squatter's camp and working on an automobile parked in front of a tent in a grove of eucalyptus trees at Nipomo, California. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, February 1935

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