Title:
Cotton tenants : three families
Author:
Agee, James, 1909-1955
Evans, Walker, 1903-1975
Summers, John, 1971-
ISBN:
9781612192123
Personal Author:
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.