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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division
Carl Mydans/Resettlement Administration

Rural Poverty

Many who migrated from the rural South were escaping the direst conditions. During the 1930s, sharecroppers and tenants were among the poorest Americans, earning incomes far below the national average. In the mid-1930s, the median household income in the United States was $1,500; a study of employed sharecroppers in four Southern states found the average income of black families to be $294.

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Image ID:	1211906
Title:	Children of sharecropper, near West Memphis, Arkansas, 1935.
Source:	Carl Mydans.
Name:	Mydans, Carl () - Photographer
Name:	United States. Farm Security Administration () - Sponsor
Depicted:	1935
Location:	Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Subjects:	African American children
	African Americans -- Arkansas
	Children of sharecroppers
	Houses
	West Memphis (Ark.)

Keywords:	Children - United States
	Great Migration, 1940-1970
	Poverty - Southern States
	Rural Life
	Sharecroppers
	Southern States - Economic Conditions