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Two Unreconciled Strivings

 African American baseball players of Morris Brown College, with boy and another man standing at door, Atlanta, Georgia Work

Panoramic photographs

These panoramic photographs view cotton plantations at the height of the sharecropping experience. Study the photographs for evidence of working conditions and suggestions of economic and social relationships.

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 		Panoramic photograph of cotton field King Cotton

Panoramic photograph of black cotton pickers in field White cotton, black pickers and a gin. Humble and crude, but the crop Uncle Sam depends on to maintain his gold balance

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