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In the 1930s a photographer named Dorothea Lange was hired by the United States Office of War Information to travel through Mississippi recording daily life. Below are some of her photographs which may help you visualize Mildred Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

School in plantation area of the Mississippi Delta.	Cabin in Hancock County, Mississippi.	Interior of Negro church of the Mississippi Delta.	Theatre in Leland, Mississippi.
Cotton hoer. Coahoma County, Mississippi.	Cotton. Coahoma County, Mississippi.	Negro hoeing cotton near Yazoo City, Mississippi.	Lunch time for cotton hoers. Mississippi
Cutover long leaf yellow pine forest. Mississippi.	Transportation in the South.  Mississippi.	Home of Mississippi tenant farmer.	Negroes hanging around the plantation store. Mississippi Delta.
Cotton sharecropper family near Cleveland, Mississippi.	Plantation overseer. Mississippi Delta.	Negro landowner waiting for the bus. Mississippi.	Mississippi Delta Negro children.

These images are in America from the Great Depression to World War II, Black and white photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-45, a collection in American Memory of the Library of Congress Website. The originals are in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress.