Cotton Chopping on Mississippi Delta Land near Clarksdale, Mississippi.

Title: Cotton Chopping on Mississippi Delta Land near Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Description: Though mechanization had started, most cotton cultivation in the South consisted of large-scale gang labor under the watchful eye of an overseer. The Great Depression’s crushing economic crisis made life as a sharecropper or tenant farmer even more difficult.
Creator: Mydans, Carl
Publisher: Library of Congress