These remarkable color photographs were taken for the Farm Security Administration between 1939 and 1941. They depict African American tenant farmers and their families living in the rural South during World War II. Despite the efforts of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU), living conditions were often deplorable.
African American Tenant Home, Mississippi
Photographed by Marion Post Wolcott in September 1939.
Source: library_of_congress
Marcella Plantation, Mississippi
Photographed by Marion Post Wollcott in September 1939.
Source: library_of_congress
Day laborers picking cotton in Mississippi
Photographed by Marion Post Wolcott in September 1939.
Source: library_of_congress
Marcella Plantation, Mississippi
Photographed by Marion Post Wollcott in September 1939.
Source: library_of_congress
