Cotton tenants : three families
by
Agee, James, 1909-1955
Title
:
Cotton tenants : three families
Author
:
Agee, James, 1909-1955
Evans, Walker, 1903-1975
Summers, John, 1971-
ISBN
:
9781612192123
Personal Author
:
Agee, James, 1909-1955
Publication Information
:
Brooklyn, NY : Melville House, c2013.
Physical Description
:
224 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Contents
:
Business -- Shelter -- Food -- Clothing -- Work -- Picking season -- Education -- Leisure -- Health -- Appendix 1. On Negroes -- Appendix 2. Landowners.
Abstract
:
On assignment for "Fortune" magazine in 1936, Agee and Evans set out to explore the plight of sharecroppers during the Great Depression. Published for the first time, Agee's original dispatch (accompanied by 25 of Evans' historic photographs) is an unsparing record of three families at a desperate time.
Personal Subject
:
Agee, James, 1909-1955-Travel-Alabama
Evans, Walker, 1903-1975-Travel-Alabama
Subject Term
:
Cotton farmers -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century
Tenant farmers -- Alabama -- Hale County -- Social conditions
Farm tenancy -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century
Cotton farmers -- Alabama -- Hale County -- Social conditions
Geographic Term
:
Hale County (Ala.) -- Rural conditions.
Alabama -- Rural conditions.
Added Author
:
Evans, Walker, 1903-1975
Summers, John, 1971-