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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division
Dorothea Lange/Farm Security Administration

Day Work

During the Depression, the migration out of the South was insignificant. Finding work anywhere was a challenge. Trapped in the South, African Americans often could rely only on day work. They traveled great distances for a day or a few weeks of work as cotton or strawberry pickers. These migrant workers travel from Tennessee to Arkansas to hoe cotton.

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Image ID:	1211908
Title:	The last truckload of cotton hoers from Memphis bound for the Wilson Cotton Plantation in Arkansas, 43 miles distant, June 1937.
Source:	Dorothea Lange.
Name:	Lange, Dorothea () - Photographer
Name:	United States. Farm Security Administration () - Sponsor
Depicted:	June 1937
Location:	Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Subjects:	African Americans -- Employment
	African Americans -- Tennessee
	Cotton pickers -- United States
	Cotton plantation workers
	Houses
	Roads
	Trucks

Keywords:	Arkansas
	Cotton
	Great Migration, 1940-1970
	Migrant Workers
	Southern States - Economic Conditions
	Tennessee